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for the main

for the main is the alternative form of in the main.

Meaning of in the main

Prepositional phrase

  1. Principally; on the whole; for the most part.
    • […] I entirely agree with you in the main as to the propriety of doing everything one could by way of providing for a child one had in a manner taken into one's own hands; […]1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter I, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 8

Questions about for the main

What is for the main the alternative form of?
For the main is the alternative form of in the main.

Words near for the main in the dictionary

  1. for the love of Mike
  2. for the love of Moses
  3. for the love of shit
  4. for the love of the game
  5. for the lulz
  6. for the main
  7. for the mean time
  8. for the meantime
  9. for the moment
  10. for the most part
  11. for the nonce

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Adapted from Wiktionary: for the main (page history and authors); in the main (page history and authors). 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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