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whereby

/wair-bahy, hwair-/US // wɛərˈbaɪ, ʰwɛər- //UK // (wɛəˈbaɪ) //

据此,借此,在此

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Definitions

  1. 1
    • : by what or by which; under the terms of which.
    • : Obsolete. by what? how?

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Examples

  • He also elected not to take advantage of a recent tax amnesty whereby he could have paid back just 10 percent of what he owed.

  • In what kind of society do we live, whereby these weapons are needed to defend and protect?

  • With If This Then That, you can make a “recipe” whereby a certain trigger results in a different action.

  • Snowden has also disclosed programs whereby the NSA worked closely with other Internet companies to search their records.

  • He hoped the Americans could broker a deal with the British whereby Iran would get at least a reasonable share of its own wealth.

  • The deposed ruler plotted and planned all kinds of schemes whereby he might be restored to his old position of authority.

  • This was no longer a plan whereby all might be poor together, but a proposal that all should be rich together.

  • More recently general statutes have been enacted whereby individuals may form such corporations without the aid of a legislature.

  • Or, better still, was his uncle's death to be the means whereby he could climb to greatness and renown?

  • Then Dick Moy showed him a plan whereby he caught half a dozen birds in as many minutes.