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Legacy vs Established - What's the difference?

legacy | established |

As adjectives the difference between legacy and established

is that legacy is (computing) of a computer system that has been in service for many years and that a business still relies upon, even though it is becoming expensive or difficult to maintain while established is of a religion, church etc: formally recognized by a state as being official within that area.

As a noun legacy

is (legal) money or property bequeathed to someone in a will.

As a verb established is

(establish).

legacy

English

Noun

(legacies)
  • (legal) money or property bequeathed to someone in a will
  • Something inherited from a predecessor; a heritage
  • left as his legacy an enduring spirit of respect for the environment.
  • The descendant of an alumnus
  • Because she was a legacy , her mother's sorority rushed her.

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (computing) of a computer system that has been in service for many years and that a business still relies upon, even though it is becoming expensive or difficult to maintain
  • left behind; old or no longer in active use
  • They expect it to take years to process and import all the legacy data.
    ''A legacy number or legacy identifier means a number no longer in use (for a document, for example)."

    established

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (establish)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of a religion, church etc.: formally recognized by a state as being official within that area.
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 731:
  • Anglicanism did manage to strengthen its position in the southern English American colonies after Charles II's restoration (even in cosmopolitan New York), gaining established status in six out of the eventual thirteen.
  • (Model, procedure, disease) Explicitly defined, described or recognized as a reference.
  • Derived terms

    * established church * long-established

    Synonyms

    * (abbreviation)