(modal) In practice; in actual use or existence, regardless of official or legal status.
Adjektiivit
In fact or in practice; in actual use or existence, regardless of official or legal status. (Often opposed to de jure.)
Substantiivit
(Australia, NZ) 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.
Esimerkit
Although the United States currently has no official language, it is largely monolingual with English being the de facto national language.
One of the vendors was simple and straight; he said that it was his policy not to rent a house to de factos.
An incidental sideline to this little farce, I suppose we can call it, is that the Opposition, in this policy, seems to have reversed its so often stated policy in this place on de factos.
The parental rights and responsibilities of de factos are the same as for legally married parents but, because property and maintenance of de factos is a state responsibility, there are differences between married and de factos in some states.