whereby
Pronunciation Adverb
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Pronunciation Adverb
whereby (not comparable)
- (interrogative, obsolete) By what, in which direction; how.
- Whereby goest thou?
- By which.
- circa 1596-97 William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act IV scene i:
- smallcaps Shylock:
- Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that:
- You take my house when you do take the prop
- That doth sustain my house; you take my life
- When you do take the means whereby I live.
- 1990, Local management of schools, Kogan Page Ltd:
- Other heads saw devolution as a whole new way of life and adopted an approach whereby the power of devolution was used to enable the school to drive the curriculum.
- circa 1596-97 William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act IV scene i:
- (nonstandard) Where, wherein, in which.
- 1992, The hotel receptionist, Paige, Jane and Paige, Grace, Cassell Educational:
- This is an electronic system whereby executives are issued with small bleepers.
- 1992, The hotel receptionist, Paige, Jane and Paige, Grace, Cassell Educational:
- French: par quoi, par lequel
- German: wodurch
- Italian: per cui
- Portuguese: pelo qual
- Russian: при
- Spanish: por el cual, por la cual
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