Legacy
a legacy (noun) -
a. What a person leaves for others after they have left their job.
b. Money or property left to others when a person dies.
an enduring legacy
a historical legacy
a legacy from
the legacy left by
a bitter legacy
a grim legacy
is a legacy of
a legacy bequeathed to
would be easier to do without the legacy of
a country's artistic legacy
refining and enriching the latter's artistic legacy
the legacy of the past
start with the legacy left by
the legacy of apartheid in South Africa
Example sentences:
* It would be a lot easier to implement a new healthcare service from scratch, without the legacy of old hospitals and the current hotchpotch of uncoordinated services.
* "That the new women breadwinners are poorer than male breadwinners, is a legacy of a wage system based on women's economic dependence."
* The fight against Communism during the Cold War, left a legacy of suspicion about radicals and foreign agitators.
* "The agricultural legacy of the colonial period was sometimes a modified form of shifting cultivation, sometimes a form of settled agriculture which tended to deplete the fertility of the soil."
* The problem became yet another legacy bequeathed to the new administration when it took office after the coup.
* "Mr Rafsanjani has been accused of departing from the policies set out by the leader of Iran's Islamic revolution, the late Ayatollah Khomeini, and may have seized on the Mujahideen attacks to demonstrate that he is not selling out the imam's legacy."
* The millionaire left the Club a generous legacy which funded the building of the present clubhouse.
* "The artist Juan Gris has often been cited as the most orthodox or pure Cubist, taking over from where the eager Picasso left off, and refining and enriching the latter's artistic legacy.
* The historical legacy of King Chulalongkorn's reign is very great in Thailand.
* "The Afghan war left a bad legacy for the region: stockpiles of sophisticated Soviet, Chinese and American weapons, and dispirited veterans with bomb-making and tactical skills."
* Chivalry and family crests are legacies of feudalism.
* "Even our code of etiquette, with its rule that women always have precedence, is a legacy from courtly love, and is felt to be far from natural in modern Japan or India…"
* I did have a legacy after all.
* The legacy of apartheid is not only within the borders of South Africa but in the region.
* Iin searching for the roots of this divided society we are forced to go back to 1660, and to start with the legacy left by the Civil War and republican experiments.
* Britain has a remarkable legacy of historic buildings, but changing economic and social conditions often turn this legacy into a liability.
* "The European Chemical Industry Federation has announced that its members are to co-operate on assisting Eastern Europe with cleaning up its legacy of pollution."
