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in the aggregate

in the aggregate is the alternative form of in aggregate.

Meaning of in aggregate

Prepositional phrase

  1. Considered or taken together.
    • Leaving aside the abundance of negativity for the time being, in aggregate these attempts at definition speak to the multitude of linguistic phenomena characteristic of language hybridity in multilingual settings, albeit explained with differing emphases by different definers.2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 7

Questions about in the aggregate

What is in the aggregate the alternative form of?
In the aggregate is the alternative form of in aggregate.

Words near in the aggregate in the dictionary

  1. in terrorem clauses
  2. in that
  3. in that case
  4. in the abstract
  5. in the act
  6. in the aggregate
  7. in the air
  8. in the altogether
  9. in the arms of Morpheus
  10. in the arms of Murphy
  11. in the article of death

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Adapted from Wiktionary: in the aggregate (page history and authors); in aggregate (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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