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oft-used

oft-used adjective: frequently used.

Adjective

oft-used (not comparable)

  1. Frequently used.
    • The "invisible hand" is an oft-used metaphor for the free market.
    • The late Professor Pat White was an outspoken critic. In his 1986 book Forgotten Railways, he dismissed as smoke and mirrors the oft-used argument that 33% of rail routes carried only 1% of the traffic, as it ignores the fact that a third of the national road network also only carried 2% of cars...2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 53

Antonyms of oft-used

Forms of oft-used

alternative formoftused
alternative formoft used

Questions about oft-used

What does oft-used mean?
Oft-used means frequently used.
What part of speech is oft-used?
Oft-used is an adjective.

Words near oft-used in the dictionary

  1. oft used
  2. oft-mentioned
  3. oft-repeated
  4. oft-time
  5. oft-times
  6. oft-used
  7. oft.
  8. often
  9. often times
  10. often wrong, never in doubt
  11. oftener

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