legal age

noun

: the age at which a person enters into full adult legal rights and responsibilities (as of making contracts or wills)

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The ongoing legal battle has overlapped at times with a separate conflict regarding the custody of their children, half of whom have now reached legal age: Maddox, 22, Pax, 20, Zahara, 19, Shiloh, 18, and 16-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne. —

Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 5 Aug. 2024 The legal age for drinking and smoking in Japan is 20, and Miyata is just 19. —

Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 26 July 2024 Back in 2005, the town of Needham, a Boston suburb, became the first place in the country to raise the legal age to purchase tobacco products to 21. —

Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 10 July 2024 The law also prevents legal age adults who are not yet 21 from working in other capacities that do not involve nude entertainment, the suit said. —

Doha Madani, NBC News, 4 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for legal age