Legacy

['legəsɪ] or ['lɛgəsi]

解释:

(n.) A gift of property by will, esp. of money or personal property; a bequest. Also Fig.; as, a legacy of dishonor or disease.

(n.) A business with which one is intrusted by another; a commission; -- obsolete, except in the phrases last legacy, dying legacy, and the like.

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同义词及近义词:

n. Bequest, devise, gift by will.

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解释:

n. that which is left to one by will: a bequest of personal property.—ns. Leg′acy-hunt′er one who hunts after legacies by courting those likely to leave them; Leg′atary a legatee; Legatee′ one to whom a legacy is bequeathed.—Legacy duty a duty levied on legacies varying according to degree of relationship and reaching its maximum where the legatee is not related to the testator.—Cumulative or Substitutional legacy a second legacy given to the same person either in addition to or in place of the first; Demonstrative legacy a general legacy but with a particular fund named from which it is to be satisfied; General legacy a sum of money payable out of the assets generally; Residuary legatee the person to whom the remainder of the property is left after all claims are discharged; Specific legacy a legacy of a definite thing as jewels pictures a sum of stock in the Funds &c.

录入:露西

娱乐性解释:

n. A gift from one who is legging it out of this vale of tears.

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