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defacto

defacto is the alternative form of de facto.

Meaning of de facto

Noun

de facto (plural de factos)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand) A legally undeclared spouse; a partner in a spousal relationship which is not officially declared as a marriage, comparable to a common law husband or wife.
    • One of the vendors was simple and straight; he said that it was his policy not to rent a house to de factos.1984, Sotirios Sarantakos, Living Together in Australia, page 141

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Forms of defacto

pluraldefactos

Questions about defacto

What is defacto the alternative form of?
Defacto is the alternative form of de facto.

Words near defacto in the dictionary

  1. defaces
  2. defacing
  3. defacingly
  4. defacings
  5. defactinib
  6. defacto
  7. defactor
  8. defactored
  9. defactoring
  10. defactors
  11. defactos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: defacto (page history and authors); de facto (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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