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Definition of For short
1. Adverb. As an abbreviation. "Call me Bob for short"
Definition of For short
1. Prepositional phrase. As an abbreviated form. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of For Short
Literary usage of For short
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literatureby H.W. Wilson Company by H.W. Wilson Company (1909)
"William DeMorgan's It Never Can Happen Again As good as its predecessors, "Joseph
Vance." "Alice-for-short." and "Somehow Good. ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"The rest of the text is intact except for short blanks where the surface is damaged.
The original inscription is estimated to have contained about 8000 ..."
3. The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler, Richard Alexander Streatfeild (1916)
"Unless for short times under exceptional circumstances, he should not even see
things that have been stunted or starved, much less should he eat meat that ..."
4. The California earthquake of April 18, 1906: Report of the state earthquake by Andrew Cowper Lawson, Harry Fielding Reid (1910)
"Magnifying power for short periods. — Among the instruments which recorded the
California earthquake magnifying powers for very short periods of 2 or 3, ..."
5. A Treatise on the Law of Stock-brokers and Stock-exchanges by John Randolph Dos Passos (1905)
"... and not that of borrower and lender, so as to enable the contractee to interpose
the defence of usury.1 VII. Sales for "Short Account." (a. ..."
6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1880)
"Case III. however, where treatment was employed only at irregular intervals and
for short periods, was characterized by several relapses, and •when last ..."
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