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if you will

if you will adverb: please, kindly; used in giving a non-concrete instruction.

Adverb

if you will

  1. Please, kindly; used in giving a non-concrete instruction.
    • But imagine, if you will, a world where these logistical problems were solved.
  2. So to speak, like; used to indicate that a description is not standard.
    • These are "partial artifacts", if you will: the imaging process has merely amplified flaws that were already present in the original.
    • Today's blackenization, if you will, of the prisons only exacerbates racist proclivities in nonblack Americans to associate black people with wrong.2001, Mark Lewis Taylor, The Executed God: The Way of the Cross in Lockdown America, Fortress Press, →ISBN, page 28
    Synonyms:
    if you like
  3. Used in conceding a description or choice of terms.
    • He wasn't a very honest person; a liar, if you will.

Synonyms of if you will

Questions about if you will

What does if you will mean?
If you will means please, kindly; used in giving a non-concrete instruction.
What part of speech is if you will?
If you will is an adverb.

Words near if you will in the dictionary

  1. if you see something, say something
  2. if you see what I mean
  3. if you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything
  4. if you want a thing done well, do it yourself
  5. if you want peace, prepare for war
  6. if you will
  7. if you're not Dutch, you're not much
  8. if you've got it, flaunt it
  9. if you've seen one, you've seen them all
  10. if your only tool is a hammer, then every problem looks like a nail
  11. if'n

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