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📖 Определения и значения для слова indirect

📒 happening not as the main aim, cause or result of a particular action, but in addition to it

  • the indirect effects of the war
  • to find something out by indirect methods
  • The building collapsed as an indirect result of the heavy rain.

📒 not done directly; done through somebody/something else

  • territories under the indirect control of the British

📒 avoiding saying something in a clear and obvious way

  • The comment was an indirect attack on the prime minister.
  • The president made an indirect reference to the subject in his speech.

📒 not going in a straight line

  • an indirect route
  • The plant prefers indirect sunlight.
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