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  • 11leg-up — leg ,up noun singular 1. ) INFORMAL if you give someone a leg up, you help them to make progress, especially in their career 2. ) if you give someone a leg up, you help them climb something by letting them put their foot in your hands and then… …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 12leg up — (n.) aid, boost, 1837, from LEG (Cf. leg) (n.) + UP (Cf. up) …

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  • 13leg — n. one of the two or four limbs that support and move an animal or human; part of the lower limb of a human from the knee to the ankle; something which resembles a leg; section of a garment which covers the leg; section of a course or journey v.… …

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  • 14leg — abbr 1 legal 2 legislative, legislature Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …

    Law dictionary

  • 15LEG.E.D. — LEG. E. D. lege eius damnatus LEG. legio: L. G. F. S. legem fecit suam etc. in notis antiqq. denotat. Franc. Gouldmann …

    Hofmann J. Lexicon universale

  • 16leg-up — n give sb a leg up informal a) to help someone to get up to a high place by joining your hands together so they can use them as a step b) BrE to help someone succeed in their job …

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  • 17leg-2 —     leg 2     English meaning: to take care about smth.     Deutsche Übersetzung: ‘sich worum kũmmern”?     Material: Gk. ἀλέγω “kũmmere mich um etwas”, ἀλεγίζω ds., ἀλεγύνω “besorge” (ἀ = die preposition n̥ “in”); Hom. δυσ ηλεγής, epithet of… …

    Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary

  • 18lēĝ h-2 : lǝĝ h- —     lēĝ h 2 : lǝĝ h     English meaning: to crawl on the ground; low     Deutsche Übersetzung: “am Boden kriechen, niedrig”     Material: O.Ice. lügr “low” (out of it Eng. low), M.H.G. lǣ ge “flat”, nd. lǟge “low”; Ltv. lę̂zns “flat”, lẽzêt …

    Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary

  • 19leg it — ► leg it informal 1) travel by foot; walk. 2) run away. Main Entry: ↑leg …

    English terms dictionary

  • 20leg´is|la|to´ri|al|ly — leg|is|la|to|ri|al «LEHJ ihs luh TR ee uhl, TOHR », adjective. 1. of or having to do with a legislator or legislature. 2. functioning as a legislator or legislature. –leg´is|la|to´ri|al|ly, adverb …

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