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to this effect

to this 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 this effect

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

Words near to this effect in the dictionary

  1. to the victor the spoils
  2. to the wide
  3. to thine own self be true
  4. to think that
  5. to this day
  6. to this effect
  7. to this end
  8. to those it may concern
  9. to time
  10. to top it off
  11. to wake the dead

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Adapted from Wiktionary: to this 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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