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{{also|léger}}
==English==

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/ˈlɛd͡ʒə(ɹ)/}}
** {{audio|en|LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-leger.wav|a=Southern England}}
* {{rhymes|en|ɛdʒə(ɹ)|s=2}}

===Etymology 1===
Borrowed from {{bor|en|fr|léger}}, assumed to be from {{der|en|la|leviarius}}, from {{m|la|levis||light in weight}}. See {{m|en|levity}}.

====Adjective====
{{en-adj}}

# {{lb|en|obsolete}} [[light#Adjective|Light]]; [[slender]], [[slim#Adjective|slim]]; [[trivial]].

===Etymology 2===
A variant of {{m|en|ledger}}.

====Adjective====
{{en-adj}}

# [[lie#Verb|Lying]] or [[remain]]ing in a place; hence, [[resident#Adjective|resident]].
#: {{ux|en|a '''leger''' ambassador}}

====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# An [[ambassador]] or [[minister#Noun|minister]] [[resident#Adjective|resident]] at a [[court #Noun|court]] or [[seat of government]]; a [[leiger]] or [[lieger]].
#* {{RQ:Fuller Church History
|passage=Sir Edward Carne, the queen's '''leger''' at Rome}}
# {{lb|en|obsolete}} Anything that [[lie#Verb|lies]] in a place; that which, or one who, [[remain]]s in a place.
# {{lb|en|obsolete}} {{alternative form of|en|ledger||[[book#Noun|book]] for [[keep#Verb|keeping]] [[note#Noun|notes]], especially one for keeping [[accounting#Noun|accounting]] [[record#Noun|records]]}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Nicolas Pike; w:Chester Dewey|chapter=Book Keeping|title=A New and Complete System of Arithmetick. Composed for the Use of Citizens of the United States|edition=4th|location=Troy, N.Y.|publisher=Printed and published by W[illia]m S. Parker,{{nb...|sold at the Troy Bookstore, and by the principal booksellers in the United States.}}|year=1822|page=490|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=i4SyT08KGo0C&pg=PA490|oclc=10074502|passage=The '''Leger''' exhibits at one view the accounts with an individual, as it contains on the Dr. [debt] side whatever he has received, and on the Cr. [credit] side whatever he has paid. {{...}} Let each account be posted from the Day Book in its proper place in the '''Leger'''. If a mistake be made, let it be corrected by an account in the Day Book, clearly stating the correction, and then let this account be posted in its proper place in the '''Leger''', that no blot or erasure may disfigure its pages.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Thomas P. Cope|title=Speech of Thomas P. Cope of Philadelphia, on Banks and Currency.{{nb...|Delivered Dec. 20, 1837, in the Convention for Revising the Constitution of the State of Pennsylvania.}}|location=[Philadelphia, Pa.]|publisher=Printed at No. 46 Carpenter Street|date=20 December 1837|year_published=1838|page=9|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=PU5VAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA9|oclc=476500588|passage=[T]his city of "''merchants, whose counting-houses are their churches, whose money is their God, and whose '''legers''','' (''defaced'' '''legers''', of course, the delegate from Indiana will understand me,) ''whose '''legers''' are their bibles.''"}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=George Leonard, Jr.|chapter=Book-keeping. [Book-keeping by Single Entry. Lesson 229.]|title=A Practical Treatise on Arithmetic,{{nb...|Wherein Every Principle Taught is Explained in a Simple and Obvious Manner; Containing Numerous Questions, and Combining the Useful Properties of Former Works, with the Modern Improvements. Being a Complete System. To which has been Added, Two Methods of Book-keeping, with Examples for Exercise.}}|edition=12th stereotyped|location=Boston, Mass.|publisher=Otis, Broaders, and Company;{{nb...|New York, N.Y.: Robinson, Pratt, & Co., and Collins, Keese, & Co.; Philadelphia, Pa.: Thomas, Cowperthwait, & Co.; Baltimore, Md.: Cushing & Brother; Cincinnati, Oh.: E. Lucas & Co.; Louisville, Ky.: Morton & Griswold.}}|year=1843|page=311|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=CzzhhAzpwOEC&pg=PA311|oclc=78250617|passage=The original charges, however, are made in what is called a ''day book'', where they are written one after another, in the order in which the transactions occur. During the hours of leisure, these charges are copied into another book, {{...}} the account of each man being placed under his name. This book is called the '''''leger'''''. The act of copying from the day book into the '''leger''' is called ''posting''.}}

====Verb====
{{en-verb}}

# {{lb|en|ambitransitive|Britain|angling}} {{alternative form of|en|ledger||to [[use#Verb|use]] (a certain type of [[bait#Noun|bait]]) in [[bottom fishing]]; to [[engage]] in bottom fishing}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=“Otter” [pseudonym; H. Jervis Alfred]|chapter=Eel, Lamprey and Lampern|title=The Modern Angler, Containing Instructions in the Art of Fly-fishing, Spining and Bottom-fishing,{{nb...|Fully Describing the Tackle, and Other Requisites. (Embellished with Numerous Lithographs and Wood Engravings.) With an Account of the Best Places for Angling, including the Thames, Lea, &c.}}|location=London|publisher=Alfred & Son,{{nb...|54, Moorgate Street.}}|year=1864|section=part I|page=68|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=DX8XAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA68|oclc=82855212|passage=Night-lines are made of water-cord, with the hooks about half-a-yard apart, baited with worms, loach, gudgeons, &c.; a brick is fastened to each end of the line to sink it, or a peg at one end and a brick at the other, and laid obliquely across the stream. They are also often taken when '''Legering''' for Barbel, {{...}}}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|title=The Fishing Season|magazine=[[w:Once A Week (magazine)|Once a Week]]|location=London|publisher=Published at the offices, 19, {{w|Tavistock Street}}, W.C.|year=1878|volume=VIII (Fourth Series)|page=95|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=rVlEAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA4-PA95|column=1|oclc=297249299|passage=Messrs. E. Frost and Tomkins, at Monkey Island, in two days, caught 80 lbs. weight of chub, dace, and roach with the fly and cheese paste, and in '''legering''' a trout of 2¼ lbs.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Paul Gustafson|chapter=Rigs|title=How to Catch Bigger Pike from Rivers, Lochs and Lakes|location=London|publisher=Collins Willow, [[w:HarperCollins|HarperCollins Publishers]]|year=1997|isbn=978-0-00-218752-7|title2=How to Catch Big Pike: All the Insight and Technique You Need to Catch Bigger Pike, whatever the Location|location2=London|publisher2=Robinson, an imprint of [[w:Little, Brown and Company|Little, Brown Book Group]]|year2=2016|page2=160|pageurl2=https://books.google.com/books?id=8WM9CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA160|isbn2=978-1-84528-606-4|passage=The added advantage of '''legering''' a small bait rather than freelining one is that you can tighten up harder to the bait and so spot runs earlier.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Martin James|chapter=Flounder|editor=Paul Morgan|title=Saltwater Flyfishing: Britain and Northern Europe|location=Machynlleth, Powys|publisher=Coch-y-Bonddu Books|year=1998|year_published=2006|page=156|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=E2WJgVnQWKgC&pg=PA156|isbn=978-0-9528510-9-7|passage=The flounder spends its life between the tideline and the 25 to 30 fathoms mark, but they are often caught several miles upstream in freshwater rivers by anglers '''legering''' worms or gentles.}}

{{Webster 1913}}

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=eeglr|Egler|Ergle|regle}}

==Dutch==

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|nl|/ˈleː.ɣər/}}
* {{audio|nl|Nl-leger.ogg}}
* {{hyphenation|nl|le|ger}}
* {{rhyme|nl|eːɣər|s=2}}

===Etymology 1===
From {{inh|nl|dum|leger}}, from {{inh|nl|odt|*leger}}, from {{inh|nl|gmw-pro|*legr}}, from {{inh|nl|gem-pro|*legrą}}. {{doublet|nl|lager}}. Cognate to {{cog|en|lair}}. {{root|nl|ine-pro|*legʰ-}}

====Noun====
{{nl-noun|n|-s|+}}

# [[army]], [[armed forces]]
# [[form]] {{gloss|habitation of a hare}}
# {{lb|nl|archaic}} [[bed]], [[crib]]
# {{lb|nl|figurative}} [[mass]], [[multitude]]
# {{short for|nl|dijkleger}}

=====Derived terms=====
{{col4
|nl|aanvalsleger
|bedleger
|belegeren
|belegering
|beroepsleger
|bevrijdingsleger
|dijkleger
|huurleger
|keurleger
|krijgsleger
|landleger
|legeraalmoezenier
|legeraanvoerder
|legerafdeling
|legerarts
|legerauto
|legerbarak
|legerbasis
|legerbericht
|legerbevelhebber
|legercommandant
|legercommando
|Leger des Heils
|legerdienst
|legerdokter
|legerdump
|legereenheid
|legeren
|legerformatie
|legergroen
|legergroep
|legerhervorming
|legerhond
|legerhoofd
|legerhospitaal
|legerinrichting
|legerleiding
|legerkamp
|legerkapitein
|legerkazerne
|legerkist
|legerkledij
|legerkleding
|legerkorps
|legerkwartier
|legermacht
|legermanoeuvre
|legermars
|legermier
|legermonument
|legernummer
|legeroefening
|legerofficier
|legeronderdeel
|legeroperatie
|legeropleiding
|legeropslagplaats
|legerorganisatie
|legerpaard
|legerplaats
|legerplicht
|legerpost
|legerpredikant
|legerrang
|legerreserve
|legerschaar
|legersoldaat
|legerstaf
|legerstede
|legertank
|legertent
|legerterrein
|legertijd
|legertraining
|legertrein
|legertucht
|legeruniform
|legervliegtuig
|legervoertuig
|legervorming
|legerwagen
|legerwapen
|legerwet
|legerziekenhuis
|luchtleger
|militieleger
|oorlogsleger
|privéleger
|rebellenleger
|regeringsleger
|staand leger
|veldleger
|verdedigingsleger
|volksleger
|vredesleger
|vrijwilligersleger
|zeeleger
}}

=====Descendants=====
* {{desc|af|leër}}
* {{desc|en|leaguer|bor=1}}
* {{desc|srn|legre|bor=1}}

===Etymology 2===
{{nonlemma}}

====Adjective====
{{head|nl|adjective form}}

# {{comparative of|nl|leeg}}

====Verb====
{{head|nl|verb form}}

# {{infl of|nl|legeren||bare-verb}}

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|nl|geler|regel}}

==German==

===Etymology===
{{dercat|de|frm|fro|la}}
18th century, {{bor+|de|fr|léger|nocap=1}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|de|/leˈʒɛːʁ/|[leˈʒɛ(ː)ɐ̯]|[lə-]|[-ˈʒeːɐ̯]}}
* {{audio|de|De-leger.ogg|a=Berlin}}
* {{audio|de|De-at-leger.ogg|a=Austria}}
* {{hyphenation|de|le|ger}}

===Adjective===
{{de-adj|comp}}

# [[casual]], [[informal]]
#: {{syn|de|locker|entspannt|ungezwungen|informell|lässig|lax|salopp}}
# {{lb|de|of clothing}} [[dressed down]]
#: {{syn|de|informell|lässig|sportlich}}

====Declension====
{{de-adecl|comp}}

===Further reading===
* {{R:Duden}}
* {{R:DWDS}}

==Indonesian==
{{wikipedia||lang=id}}

===Etymology===
From {{bor|id|nl|legger|t=ledger}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|id|/lɛɡər/|}}
* {{hyphenation|id|lè|gêr}}

===Noun===
{{id-noun|head=lègêr|}}

# {{lb|id|education}} a [[ledger]], the [[marking]] [[register]].

===Further reading===
* {{R:KBBI Daring}}

==Interlingua==

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|ia|/leˈɡer/}}

===Verb===
{{ia-verb|er}}

# to [[read]]

====Conjugation====
{{ia-conj|leg|er}}

==Latin==

===Verb===
{{head|la|verb form|head=lēger}}

# {{inflection of|la|lēgō||1|s|pres|pasv|subj}}

==Middle English==

===Noun===
{{head|enm|noun}}

# {{alt form|enm|liggere}}

==Norwegian Bokmål==

===Noun===
{{head|nb|noun form|g=m}}

# {{inflection of|nb|lege||indef|p}}

===Verb===
{{head|nb|verbf}}

# {{infl of|nb|lege||pres}}

==Norwegian Nynorsk==

===Noun===
{{head|nn|noun form|g=f}}

# {{inflection of|nn|lege||indef|p}}

==Old English==

===Etymology===
{{dercat|ang|gem-pro|ine-pro|inh=1}}
From {{inh|ang|gmw-pro|*legr}}.

Cognate with {{cog|ofs|leger}}, {{cog|osx|legar}}, {{cog|nl|leger|t=bed, camp, army}}, {{cog|goh|legar}} ({{cog|de|Lager|t=camp}}), {{cog|non|legr}} ({{cog|da|lejr}}, {{cog|sv|läger|t=bed}}), {{cog|got|𐌻𐌹𐌲𐍂𐍃}}. The Indo-European root is also the source of {{cog|grc|λέχος}}, {{cog|la|lectus|t=bed}}, {{cog|cel-pro|*legyom}} ({{cog|sga|lige}}, {{cog|ga|luí}}), {{cog|sla-pro|*ležati}} ({{cog|ru|лежа́ть}}).

===Pronunciation===
* {{ang-IPA|leġer}}

===Noun===
{{ang-noun|n|head=leġer}}

# the state or action of [[lying]], lying down, or lying ill
#* {{quotei|ang|on ðam sixtan dæge his '''legeres'''|on the sixth day of his '''illness'''}}
# resting-place; [[couch]], [[bed]]
# [[deathbed]], [[grave]]
#* {{quotei|ang|on gehalgodan '''legere''' licgan|to be buried in a consecrated '''grave'''}}

====Declension====
{{ang-decl-noun-a-n|leġr|nomsg=leġer|short=1}}

====Related terms====
{{col3
|ang|licgan
|lecgan
|lōg
|lōgian
|ġeliġer
}}

====Descendants====
* {{desc|enm|leir|leire|lair|lare}}
** {{desc|en|lair}}
** {{desc|sco|lair|lear|layer|lare}}

==Romansch==

===Etymology 1===
From {{der|rm|la|lego|legō, legere}}.

====Verb====
{{rm-verb}}

# {{lb|rm|Rumantsch Grischun|Sursilvan|Vallader}} to [[read]]

=====Conjugation=====
{{rm-conj/sursilvan|leg|er}}
{{rm-conj/grischun|leg|er|el=1}}

=====Alternative forms=====
* {{alt|rm|liger||Sutsilvan|Surmiran}}
* {{alt|rm|ler||Puter}}

===Etymology 2===
{{rfe|rm}}

====Adjective====
{{rm-adj|f=legra}}

# {{lb|rm|Sursilvan}} [[merry]], [[happy]]
#: {{syn|rm|allegher}}

=====Alternative forms=====
* {{alt|rm|legher||Rumantsch Grischun|Sutsilvan|Surmiran}}

==Swedish==

===Adjective===
{{sv-adj}}

# {{alternative form of|sv|legär}}

====Inflection====
{{sv-adj-reg}}

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|sv|a=eeglr|regel}}