leg.

1. 1
   adjectiveabbreviation

   Abbreviation of legal.

   The clerk flagged the leg. issues with the lease before the meeting.

   Every form had a column for the applicant's leg. status.

   Note

   As a modifier before a noun, the abbreviation is ambiguous. The same leg. also stands for the abbreviation of legislative, so a phrase like leg. issues can point to the law in general or to lawmaking in particular. When the surrounding text does not settle which is meant, writing legal in full is the safer choice.

2. 2
   nouncolloquialabbreviationclipping

   Clipping of legend.

   Everyone at the party agreed the host was an absolute leg.

   He fixed my bike for free, what a leg.

   Note

   Praise clipped to one syllable. It shortens legend only in the sense of a remarkable person, never a story, and it settles into fixed frames: such a leg., an absolute leg., what a leg. It works as a friendly verdict on someone's deed, often with a term of address like mate. It is not used in the plural.

3. 3
   nounabbreviation

   Abbreviation of legislation.

   Analysts tracked the leg. affecting small businesses this quarter.

   The summary listed each piece of housing leg. by date.

4. 4
   nounCanadaabbreviationclipping

   Clipping of legislature.

   Opposition members in the leg. argued that the budget ignored rural hospitals.

   Protesters gathered outside the leg. in Victoria before question period began.

   Note

   Canadian political shorthand. In Canada, legislature usually means a province's or territory's assembly rather than the federal parliament, so the leg. is a provincial chamber. It can also name the building, as when protesters gather outside the leg. in Victoria. It nearly always takes the definite article and has no plural. The period keeps it apart from the ordinary word leg.

5. 5
   adjectiveabbreviation

   Abbreviation of legislative.

   The clerk logged the vote against the leg. record for that day.

   Interns sorted the testimony by leg. committee.

6. 6
   nounabbreviation

   Abbreviation of legate.

   The record noted that the leg. arrived ahead of the treaty talks.

   Historians traced the leg. through the city's archived correspondence.

7. 7
   adverbabbreviation

   Abbreviation of legato.

   The teacher penciled leg. into the part where the student kept clipping the notes.

   The cellist saw leg. printed across the bridge passage and shaped a single line.

   Note

   A direction printed or penciled into a score, where it abbreviates the adverb: play this passage smoothly connected. The full word does more work in prose. There, legato is also a noun, both for the style of performance and for a passage played that way. The abbreviation stays on the page as an instruction to the player.

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