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in rough

in rough prepositional phrase: as a draft.

Prepositional phrase

  1. As a draft.
    • Younger learners will 'copy out in rough, copy it out in neat, draw a coloured border around it, highlight the keywords in primary colours, draw you a picture'.1998, Alistair Smith, Accelerated Learning in Practice, page 43
    • Where accounts exist both in rough (or draft) form and in neat (or finished) form, preference is given to the neat version, which may be considered more 'official,' unless the rough text preserves details lost in the neat text.2007, Lawrence M. Clopper, Elizabeth Baldwin, David Mills, Cheshire Including Chester - Volume 1, page cxcv

Questions about in rough

What does in rough mean?
In rough means as a draft.
What part of speech is in rough?
In rough is a prepositional phrase.

Words near in rough in the dictionary

  1. in return
  2. in reverse
  3. in right of
  4. in rilievo
  5. in Roblox
  6. in rough
  7. in route
  8. in ruins
  9. in safe hands
  10. in school
  11. in season

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