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to that effect

to that effect is the alternative form of to the effect.

Meaning of to the effect

Prepositional phrase

  1. With more or less the meaning of.
    • He was vague but said something to the effect that he'd do it soon.
    Synonyms:
    along those lines

Questions about to that effect

What is to that effect the alternative form of?
To that effect is the alternative form of to the effect.

Words near to that effect in the dictionary

  1. to start off with
  2. to start with
  3. to taste
  4. to tell the truth
  5. to tell you the truth
  6. to that effect
  7. to that end
  8. to the
  9. to the backbone
  10. to the best of one's knowledge
  11. to the bone

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Adapted from Wiktionary: to that effect (page history and authors); to the effect (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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