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Meaning of legacy | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2 Standard
ˈlɛɡəsi

Definitions

  1. Left over from the past; old and no longer current.
    especially, not-comparable
  2. past participle of legar

Equivalents

Examples

“They have no idea what occurs in the network or its topology, and all of the services remain dependent on it — a very legacy approach to creating services in the optical network.”
“However, pre-relational DBMS are legacy.”
“Finally, the organisation ends up with an expensive ERP of which it uses only part because of divergent evolutionary directions and a set of new systems fast becoming legacy.”
“There was talk in the past that ERP systems were legacy, lacked the agility and flexibility, and did not support interoperability.”
“Because most of these HALs are legacy and only used on aging or outdated hardware, chances are that you do not have any in your lab and must be creative in procuring one from an active user.”
“In practice, there are legacy or mature, domain specific, off the shelf (i.e. software that other software projects can reuse and integrate into their own products) tools that are used regularly by modeleres (e.g., for testing purposes, for communication and collaboration).”
“Legacy acts won't stop releasing music”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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