receive a legacy
Look at other dictionaries:
Legacy Australia — Infobox Non profit Non profit name = Legacy Australia Non profit Non profit type = founded date = 1923 founder = location = origins = key people = area served = product = focus = method = revenue = endowment = num volunteers = num employees = num … Wikipedia
legacy — /leg euh see/, n., pl. legacies. 1. Law. a gift of property, esp. personal property, as money, by will; a bequest. 2. anything handed down from the past, as from an ancestor or predecessor: the legacy of ancient Rome. 3. an applicant to or… … Universalium
legacy — A disposition of personalty by will. A bequest. In a technical sense and strictly construed, legacy is a gift or bequest by will of personal property, whereas a devise is a testamentary disposition of real estate, but such distinction will not be … Black's law dictionary
legacy — A disposition of personalty by will. A bequest. In a technical sense and strictly construed, legacy is a gift or bequest by will of personal property, whereas a devise is a testamentary disposition of real estate, but such distinction will not be … Black's law dictionary
legacy — ▪ I. legacy leg‧a‧cy 1 [ˈlegəsi] noun legacies PLURALFORM [countable] 1. a situation that exists as a result of things that happened at an earlier time: • Hotels are in oversupply, a legacy of the last building boom. 2 … Financial and business terms
legacy — noun 1 money/property VERB + LEGACY ▪ bequeath (sb), leave (sb) ▪ get, receive ▪ He received a large legacy from his uncle. PREPOSITION ▪ … Collocations dictionary
receive — verb 1 get/accept sth ADVERB ▪ regularly ▪ automatically ▪ You will automatically receive updates by text message. ▪ currently ▪ They currently receive subsidies from the gov … Collocations dictionary
legacy — leg|a|cy [ˈlegəsi] n plural legacies [Date: 1300 1400; : Old French; Origin: legacie position of a legate , from Latin legatus; LEGATE] 1.) something that happens or exists as a result of things that happened at an earlier time legacy of ▪ The… … Dictionary of contemporary English
legacy — noun (C) 1 a situation that exists as a result of things that happened at an earlier time (+ of): The civil wars in the region are largely a legacy of apartheid. 2 money or property that you receive from someone after they die: a legacy from her… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
Public-Private Investment Program for Legacy Assets — On March 23, 2009, the United States Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Federal Reserve, and the United States Treasury Department announced the Public Private Investment Program for Legacy Assets. The program is designed to… … Wikipedia
