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Definition of For all practical purposes
1. Adverb. In every practical sense. "The rest are for all practical purposes useless"
Lexicographical Neighbors of For All Practical Purposes
Literary usage of For all practical purposes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... the soul becomes, for all practical purposes, merely the series or mass of
these presentations, whilst their permutations, infractions, and combinations ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1865)
"This bow is sufficient for all practical purposes, and is the only kind I have
usually used iu the field. Figs. 6 and 7 are fine lozenge-shaped drills, ..."
3. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1919)
"This would destroy for all practical purposes the liability which the statute
intends to impose on the person who places his name on the back of a ..."
4. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1899)
"... dogs and those in which the pancreas had been previously removed showed, for
all practical purposes, an equal breaking up of the neutral fat. Secretion. ..."
5. The Industrial Resources, Etc., of the Southern and Western States by James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow (1852)
"... correct for all practical purposes, it appears that the total amount of cotton
raised in the world was 900000000 pounds', of which 460.000,- 000 pounds, ..."
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