The phrase "legitimate operation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to denote a business transaction or practice that is legally valid or acceptable. For example, "The company's main objective is to ensure that all of its operations are legitimate and comply with the law."
How can I tell if it is a legitimate operation or a "diploma mill"?
If he had been running a legitimate operation, that would have made earning good returns for other investors even harder.
But western experts question why a legitimate operation would need to be concealed in a facility in a clandestine, underground site.
They can also (but do not have to) have a secretary who, in a legitimate operation, takes on much of a director's work.
"The [Premier] League's sales process will be conducted fully in compliance with competition law and there is no legal basis whatsoever for any interference with the sales process or the legitimate operation of the market," he said.
For the first time, that complaint suggested that Mr. Madoff may have started his money-management business as a legitimate operation, investing money mostly for friends and family using arbitrage and stock-picking strategies.
Images on Kingdom's website show staff conducting legitimate operations on behalf of councils.
Some of Mr. Madoff's critics have contended that the tiny accounting firm he used was a red flag, given the size of Mr. Madoff's legitimate operations.
Mr. Picard has been trying for more than two months to find a buyer for the legitimate operations of Mr. Madoff's firm, Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities.
The Caymans and the rest claim that this is because they are home to perfectly legitimate operations – in which case, what have they got to hide?
Randy Mastro, a Democrat who was an influential deputy mayor in the administration of a Republican mayor, Rudolph W. Giuliani, said that as long as candidates' donations went toward legitimate operations, the practice of contributing to a political party was "perfectly legitimate activity".
