legacy

[ˈleɡəsi]

Definition:
1. Money or property that is given to you by somebody when they die.
2. A situation that exists now because of events, actions, etc. that took place in the past.

Use 'legacy' in a sentence:

1. It is an awesome legacy.
2. Article 6 The right to inheritance or legacy of a competent person shall be exercised on his behalf by his statutory agent.
3. To many Americans the westward March illustrates a legacy of individualism.
4. These books are his legacy to the college.
5. Legacy totally passive. Legacy media is also slang for Web sites that use outdated technology or presentation styles. It's the opposite of new media.
6. You could make a real difference to someone's life by leaving them a generous legacy.
7. Heroes of History: Legacy of My Chinese Family.
8. German Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck may be most famous for his military and diplomatic talent, but his legacy includes many of today's social insurance programs.
9. A citizen may enter into a legacy-support agreement with an organization under collective ownership which, in accordance with the agreement, assumes the duty to support the former in his or her lifetime and attends to his or her interment after death, in return for the right to legacy.
10. Legislation Analysis and Frame Design on Legacy Tax System.
11. Legacy method: Managed resources.
12. General legacies are subject to the same principles as demonstrative legacies.
13. This is quite a legacy.
14. The book proved such a success that the authors followed it up with "The Messianic Legacy."
15. We are the keepers of this legacy.
16. They each received a legacy of $5 000.
17. If you applied the same measures to legacy fighters, the cost would be up to $3 trillion.
18. I would raise prices and make it into more of a legacy product.
19. Planning documents pledged that the great legacy of the Games would be to lever a nation of sport lovers away from their couches.
20. Perhaps my expectations of lunches, water-cooler gossip and caring, deep-and-meaningful conversations were a legacy of the last time I was in that kind of office environment.
21. He thinks the legacy is a gift from the Gods.
22. Legacy programmers can be agile too.
23. Review the legacy application analysis/ design model.
24. One proviso attaches to the legacy.
25. The old system has left a mixed legacy.
26. "It's a really hard thing to do and it's a tremendous luxury that BuzzFeed doesn't have a legacy business," Peretti remarked.
27. Parkrun is succeeding where London's Olympic "legacy" is failing.
28. A hidden hazard of digitally recreating a deceased celebrity is the risk of damaging their legacy.
29. How many children has the legacy to be divided between?
30. They each received a legacy of$ 5 000.
31. The Greeks have a rich legacy of literature.
32. In the absence of such an indication, he is deemed to have accepted the inheritance. A legatee should, within two months from the time he learns of the legacy the legacy.
33. Industrial disputes are not the only issue bothering BA. More than 20 years after privatization, it is still struggling with the legacy of state ownership.
34. Planning documents pledged that the great legacy of the Games would be to lever a nation of sports lovers away from their couches.
35. Behaviorism as a dominant intellectual field has faded, but it still leaves behind an important legacy.
36. Perhaps my expectations of lunches, water-cooler gossip, and caring, deep-and-meaningful conversations were a legacy of the last time I was in that kind of office environment.
37. The moderates, on the other hand, have left an ambiguous and, in the end, harmful legacy.
38. So what is Cousteau's legacy?
39. He received a small legacy from his grandfather.
40. She offered to settle a legacy on Katharine.
41. They use legacy IT systems to implement the service providers.
42. It's also a story of how a father created a legacy with his grandfather's fiddle, and passed a baton to his son, so that his son could fulfill his dreams.
43. Article 21 Where there are obligations attached to testamentary succession or legacy, the successor or legatee shall perform them.
44. I can preserve his inspiring legacy more powerfully through writing than through the hummingbird pendant I wear around my neck.
45. His research, photographs and letters are his legacy to the world – and they are to be saved for the nation.
46. where a will exists, it shall be handled in accordance with testamentary succession or as legacy; where there is an agreement for legacy in return for support, the former shall be handled in accordance with the terms of the agreement.
47. They now have to cope with the legacy of their past incompetence writ large on their balance sheets.
48. The Sons of Confederate Veterans held a public conference of carefully selected scholars to "reassess" the legacy of Lincoln.
49. The war left a legacy of destruction and hatred.
50. Since his death in 1985 his widow has carried the torch of his Stalinist legacy.
51. It's a legacy which will hang around the country's neck for some time to come.
52. Jirtle and Waterland set about to see if they could change the unfortunate genetic legacy of these little creatures.
53. Future generations will be left with a legacy of pollution and destruction.
54. Although using RAD during the assembly phase is a fairly common practice, many IT businesses are very specialized with only legacy systems.