Definition of legwork
: active physical work (as in gathering information) that forms the basis of more creative or mentally exacting work (such as writing a book)
- Trending Now: More Trending:
- hogwash probity sequacious inadmissible oligarch, pejorative
- ALL
What's Trending Now
More Trending Words
Examples of legwork in a Sentence
I wrote the article myself, but my assistant gathered the information and did most of the other legwork.
Recent Examples of legwork from the Web
-
The legwork began two years ago when Hartford Sports Group began working to put a pro soccer team in Dillon Stadium.
-
The 30-year-old South Side native began the legwork to start her own nonprofit to help fatherless girls.
-
Amazon In 2016, the deals got better, but smart shoppers still had to do some legwork to separate the good buys from the bad.
-
With the court clearly imposing a warrant standard, police just have to do a little more legwork ahead of time, but getting a warrant is not difficult.
-
Depending on how much legwork American industries can do to supply domestic steel and aluminum, prices for items that use the metals (cars, appliances and construction equipment, to name a few) could go up.
-
And the projects, like Brown’s, take a lot of legwork.
-
Democrats blasted the breakdown as failed diplomacy and blamed a lack of legwork by Trump heading into the talks.
-
Still, all of this legwork brings us no closer to understanding what made Robin Williams so inimitably Robin Williams-like.
These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'legwork.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
First Known Use of legwork
1891
LEGWORK Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of legwork for English Language Learners
-
: the active physical work that is involved in doing something
Learn More about legwork
Seen and Heard
What made you want to look up legwork? Please tell us where you read or heard it (including the quote, if possible).
