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[ adverb ] (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
Synonyms about approximately roughly or_so close_to some around just_about Examples "lasted approximately an hour" "he's about 30 years old" "some forty people came" "weighs around a hundred pounds" "roughly $3,000" "holds 3 gallons, more or less" "20 or so people were there" Used in print (Kenneth Allsop, The Bootleggers and Their Era...)This dinner was the start of a new blatancy in the relationship between the gangs and the politicians , which , prior to 1924 , says Pasley , `` had been maintained with more_or_less stealth '' , but which henceforth was marked by these ostentatious gatherings , denounced by a clergyman as `` Belshazzar feasts '' , at which `` politicians fraternized cheek_by_jowl with gangsters , openly , in the big downtown hotels '' . (Edward Streeter, The Chairman of the Bored....)Up_to_date , however , his garden was still more_or_less of a mess , he had n't even started his workshop and if there was a meadow pond in the neighborhood he had n't found it . |
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