as for
Preposition
  1. Regarding; about; concerning.
    I can't teach that class today: I'm sick. As for the rest of the teachers, they are still on leave.
    • 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 3, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473 ↗:
      As for the pigs, they could already read and write perfectly.
Synonyms Translations
  • French: quant à, pour
  • German: was ... angeht, was ... betrifft
  • Portuguese: quanto a
  • Russian: что каса́ется
  • Spanish: en cuanto a, respecto a, para, en lo tocante a



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