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De facto Existing in actual fact although not by official recognition. De facto Existing in fact, but not by legal standard. In business, one occasionally makes reference to "de facto" monopolies in situations where alternatives to a certain brand may exist, but the brand has such a large market share that the alternatives may as well not exist. Likewise, some analysts of the 2008 recession have discussed the "de facto" nationalization of the banking industry, in which some governments, notably the British, bought some banks outright and implicitly guaranteed the existence of all other banks. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The San Diego branch of the ACLU claims the court "is creating a defacto poverty exemption in the Fourth Amendment. Triple detection systems, which employ a concentration detector, viscometer and light scattering detector operating in concert, are said to be the defacto standard for the characterization of natural and synthetic polymers and proteins in the petrochemical, specialty chemical, elastomer, adhesives, coatings and other markets. The publication was extremely laudatory in both their recognition of Rodriguez's achievements and in their endorsement of his defacto advocacy de causa por La Raza. |
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