"legitimate establishment" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a business that is legally authorized to operate or an institution that has been officially recognized as authentic or genuine. For example, "The bank is a legitimate establishment and has been in the city for over 20 years."
"We only allow musicians and entertainers to work in legitimate establishments such as cruise ships and major hotels," said Yolanda E. Paragua, a senior official with the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration.
There was an actual whorehouse in the neighborhood, peep shows and massage parlors on 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue, illicit poker rooms, dice games in the back of otherwise legitimate establishments; firearms, drugs and stolen credit cards were offered for sale in the subterranean pool halls; three-card monte was being tossed on many of the street corners.
Here languished Rocco's on 22nd, less a legitimate dining establishment than a set for the reality television show "The Restaurant" and a fulcrum for legal contretemps between the chef Rocco DiSpirito and the restaurateur Jeffrey Chodorow.
"The point of this ordinance is to make sure it's a legitimate massage establishment," said Commissioner Rick Gunter.
With Il Caso Mattei (The Mattei Affair, 1972), which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1972, Rosi returned to his stride and to the subjects that most preoccupied him: power, corruption and the links between legitimate political establishments and organised crime.
Artists, labels and hangers-on get away with all kinds of things they shouldn't, but there is no spectacle large enough, no "establishment" legitimate enough, and no fan important enough to defend fuckery once it's been identified.
Most of those debating would agree that the only legitimate purpose a military establishment can serve is national defense.
The transitional government's principle purpose is to prepare the way for the establishment of legitimate and accountable public institutions.
In other countries armies are used for a variety of purposes, some of them beneficient but most people in the U.S. agree that the only legitimate purpose a military establishment can serve is national defense.
The United States on Friday called the decision "self-serving political maneuvering" that amounted to "a disservice to the people of Somalia and a setback to the establishment of legitimate and effective government".
