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by design

by design prepositional phrase: intentionally, on purpose.

Prepositional phrase

  1. Intentionally, on purpose.
    • All of that — the appeal, the access, the illicitness of cigarettes — was by design.2019 March 8, Jeneen Interlandi, “Vaping Is Big Tobacco’s Bait and Switch”, in The New York Times
  2. Designed specifically for a given purpose, to have a particular feature.

by design meaning in Malayalam

by design in Malayalam

intentionally, deliberately, on purpose
കല്പിച്ചുകൂട്ടി, കരുതിക്കൂട്ടി, മനഃപൂർവ്വം, വേണമെന്നുവച്ച്, ബോധപൂർവ്വം, സോദ്ദേശ്യമായി

Questions about by design

What does by design mean?
By design means intentionally, on purpose.
What is by design in Malayalam?
By design in Malayalam is കല്പിച്ചുകൂട്ടി, കരുതിക്കൂട്ടി, മനഃപൂർവ്വം. See By design meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is by design?
By design is a prepositional phrase.

Words near by design in the dictionary

  1. by crums
  2. by day
  3. by default
  4. by definition
  5. by degrees
  6. by design
  7. by dint of
  8. by ear
  9. by extension
  10. by eye
  11. by failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail

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Adapted from Wiktionary: by design (page history and authors); by design (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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