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population-wise

population-wise adverb: in terms of a population.

Adverb

population-wise (not comparable)

  1. In terms of a population.
    • And while American leaders rarely talk openly about it, they may have geopolitical reasons for not wanting this country to be too much smaller, population-wise, than China.2014 November 9, Tyler Cowen, “A Strategy for Rich Countries: Absorb More Immigrants”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on...
    • It’s unlikely that my city will look like western Europe, population-wise. Here, social communities are much more intact . . . When you look at the UK, where even the prime minister or the mayor of London can be from the minority community, or when you look at the German football team — that sort...2025 February 5, Marton Dunai, Eade Hemingway, quoting Stefan Radev, “The country that emigration left behind”, in Financial Times, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC

Forms of population-wise

alternative formpopulationwise

Origin of population-wise

From population + -wise.

Questions about population-wise

What does population-wise mean?
Population-wise means in terms of a population.
What part of speech is population-wise?
Population-wise is an adverb.

Words near population-wise in the dictionary

  1. population inversions
  2. population mean
  3. population means
  4. population pyramid
  5. population pyramids
  6. population-wise
  7. populational
  8. populationally
  9. populationism
  10. populationist
  11. populationistic

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