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INDIRECT
/ˌɪn.dɪˈɹɛkt/
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What does INDIRECT mean?
adjective
- Not direct
- Not of obvious or immediate cause, but as a secondary result.
- Not focused straight at the target or subject; whose true aim appears secondary or obscure.
More meanings (7)
adjective
- Not involving the quickest, shortest, or most convenient path; oblique.
- Employing argument by contradiction; making use the law of the excluded middle; arguing via the contrapositive.
- Figuratively
- (archaic) Not straightforward, fair, or honest; corrupt.
noun
- An indirect cost.
- An indirect radiator.
verb
- To access by means of indirection; to dereference.
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IPA pronunciation
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Thus the associations for the liberty of the press, for individual liberty, for the instruction of the people against indirect taxes.
I may therefore indulge in language which may seem to others indirect and ambiguous, and yet be quite well understood by yourself.
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The Will to Power is this force, “the instinct of self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results thereof.”
Such exercise increases the sensitiveness to muscular contraction, and unnecessary muscular contraction, beside something to avoid in itself, obviously makes thought indirect.
In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory.