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Definition of Or so
1. Adverb. (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct. "20 or so people were at the party"
Definition of Or so
1. Phrase. Roughly, approximately. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Or So
Literary usage of Or so
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1903)
"inate the questions discussed at bar, which are either irrelevant or so effectually
foreclosed by prior decisions of this court as to be no longer open to ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"The language of the Act is : "The assignee may recover the property, or the value
of it, from the person во receiving it, or so to be benefited. ..."
3. United States Statutes at Large: Containing the Laws and Concurrent by United States (1868)
"That the following sums, or so much Department. for the year ending June thirtieth,
eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, out of any money in the treasury not ..."
4. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"The lightning that flashes so bright and so free, Is scarcely so blithe or so
bonny as me. shine, But has not a heart half so lightsome as ring — bridal ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... were the will not established; then such share, or so much thereof as will
not exceed the legacy or bequest made in the will, shall be saved to him. ..."
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