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☆ leg·work (leg′wʉrk′)

noun

Informal routine work that is necessary to a job, as that of a news reporter, involving, typically, walking or driving from place to place, away from the office

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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