(of an action or situation) beyond the province of the law.
（行为，情况）法律管辖以外的；无法律规定的
there were extralegal means through which to render the NAACP impotent
Example sentencesExamples
Furthermore, the elders never gave any indication of being aware that their actions were extralegal, if not illegal.
The side effect is an extralegal economy; for example, the ‘construction industry’ was slumping in Peru, yet concrete was being sold at a record rate because of the extralegal construction going on.
Its participants drew on an American tradition of collective organization and crowd action which held extralegal activity to be legitimate when justice was otherwise elusive.
The main extralegal means of tenure is squatting.
These were extralegal considerations, irrelevant, impure.
Definition of extralegal in US English:
extralegal
adjectiveˌekstrəˈlēɡəlˌɛkstrəˈliɡəl
(of an action or situation) beyond the authority of the law; not regulated by the law.
（行为，情况）法律管辖以外的；无法律规定的
there were extralegal means through which to render the NAACP impotent
Example sentencesExamples
Furthermore, the elders never gave any indication of being aware that their actions were extralegal, if not illegal.
These were extralegal considerations, irrelevant, impure.
The side effect is an extralegal economy; for example, the ‘construction industry’ was slumping in Peru, yet concrete was being sold at a record rate because of the extralegal construction going on.
Its participants drew on an American tradition of collective organization and crowd action which held extralegal activity to be legitimate when justice was otherwise elusive.