legging
English
Alternative forms
- leggin (dated)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lɛɡ.ɪŋ/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛɡɪŋ
Noun
legging (plural leggings)
- A covering, usually of leather, worn from knee to ankle.
- Stretchy tight-fitting pants often worn by women or for exercise.
- One of the legs of a pair of trousers.
- Take the legging and turn up the cuff.
- The process of putting a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market.
- 2000, Michael Williams, Amy Hoffman, Fundamentals of Options Market, McGraw Hill Professional, page 128:
- As a practical matter, you cannot put on these positions simultaneously at reasonable prices. In order to achieve these positions at a reasonable risk/reward profile, you must put the positions in a series of separate trades. This process is called legging.
Translations
leg covering
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Derived terms
Anagrams
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlɛɣɪŋ/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: leg‧ging
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlɛɡɪŋ/, /ˈlɛɣɪŋ/
- Hyphenation: leg‧ging
Icelandic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlɛcːiŋk/
Declension
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
legging f (definite singular legginga, indefinite plural leggingar, definite plural leggingane)
- laying
- the act of going to bed one self or putting to bed someone else
References
- “legging” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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