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legwork

noun

Work, especially research or preparation, that involves significant walking, travel, or similar effort.

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The word "legwork" is correct and can be used in written English.
It typically refers to the hard work of collecting information or doing research that is necessary before taking action. For example, "We've done all the legwork needed to launch the project, now we can start executing the plan."

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The bank's own scientists will do the laboratory legwork to fully characterise the deposited cells, and grow them in sufficient quantities, and to a quality, that they can be shipped to labs worldwide.

But one lesson of that crisis was that investors needed to do their own legwork.

Manmohan Singh, Mr Modi's predecessor, had done the legwork in the run up to a state visit to Bangladesh in 2011.

In 2009 Arnold Milstein of Stanford University estimated that less than 2% of spending by American insurers went on the kind of non-urgent procedures that might be moved abroad.The legwork required also turned out to be formidable.

This crop is mostly written by important people whose co-writers presumably did much of the legwork.

And a similar proportion (39% against 73%) believe that the government's treatment of the inmates at Guantánamo Bay is fair.Hostility to the Iraq war, and wider worries about the excesses of the "war on terror", are particularly strong among the Democratic base: the people who vote in primaries and do much of the legwork in the general election.

And the subsidies flow both ways: small investigative teams often rely on the leads and legwork provided by bigger outfits.All that means, though, that the new-model journalism depends heavily on the old kind it is designed to replace.

"You have to interpret them innocently".More than anything this requires legwork by the managers concerned.

In the absence of a functioning government in Libya that can request help such a plan will require UN approval: the leaders of Britain and France, the two EU members on the UN Security Council, have promised to begin the necessary legwork (both the Americans and Russians are said to be sceptical).

The pay may be low about $7 an hour for doing the legwork and $15 for supervising but the tips can be good and you get to drive around in expensive cars.Valet parking used to be synonymous with flashy hotels and celebrity parties.

Germany's central bank does most of the legwork in overseeing banks, using staff based in its regional branch network, but the ultimate say lies with BaFin, an agency of the finance ministry.

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