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as against

as against preposition: in comparison to.

Preposition

as against

  1. In comparison to
    • But in the meditations of his leisure hours he believed in a dual reality which accounted for the miracles of Russian history. Talking about it, however, was harder than writing about it. Talking about it was almost impossible. ¶ “Well…” Nechvolodov replied. “You take the broad view of everything....1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 168
    Synonyms:
    as opposed to

Synonyms of as against

Questions about as against

What does as against mean?
As against means in comparison to.
What part of speech is as against?
As against is a preposition.

Words near as against in the dictionary

  1. as a mug
  2. as a result
  3. as a rule
  4. as a whole
  5. as above, so below
  6. as against
  7. as all fuck
  8. as all get out
  9. as all get-out
  10. as all hell
  11. as along as

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