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Definition of Legwork
1. Noun. Work, especially research or preparation, that involves significant walking, travel, or similar effort. ¹
2. Noun. Skillful or vigorous use of the legs, as in dance or sports. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Legwork
1. work that involves extensive walking [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Legwork
Literary usage of Legwork
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Boating by Walter Bradford Woodgate (1891)
"... hold of the water is weak, for want of legwork to support the body. 4. The oar
should be held in the fingers, not in the fist; the lower joints of the ..."
2. Parents, Peers and Pot II: Parents in Action by Marsha Manatt (1996)
"They were pleased by the full backing of the Gunn High School PTSA, but they knew
that the real legwork would have to be done by those individual parents ..."
3. Assessing Problems in Monitoring and Enforcing Parole Under the Interstate edited by Mike Dewine (1999)
"We did a lot of legwork as far as developing the fields that were required in
the data base, but here again the technology was not there. ..."
4. Selling Used Books Online: The Complete Guide to Bookselling at Amazon's by Stephen Windwalker (2002)
"... legwork, they are cheap and easy to acquire, and their compact and standard
sizes and spine-out identifying information make them easy to keep in ..."
5. Cycling by William Coutts Keppel Albemarle, George Lacy Hillier (1887)
"The constant tendency of a beginner's legwork is to thrust the driving-wheel of
a bicycle or the wheels of a Humber type tricycle from one side to the other ..."
6. The Backup Book: Disaster Recovery from Desktop to Data Center by Dorian J. Cougias, E. L. Heiberger, Karsten Koop (2003)
"I'm sorry, but when I can have a computer assigned to do the legwork of securing
other computers for me, I don't even think twice—that's where Citadel's ..."
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