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quasi

/ˈkwɑːˌzaɪ/

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What does quasi mean?

adjective

  1. Resembling or having a likeness to the named thing.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈkwɑːˌzaɪ/

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Other dictionary pronunciations

/ˈkwɑːzi//ˈkwɑːsi//ˈkweɪˌzaɪ//ˈkweɪˌsaɪ/
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A large volume of illegal and quasi- legal economic activity is not captured in estimates of the country's total output.
United States. Central Intelligence AgencyThe 1992 CIA World FactbookProject Gutenberg ebook #48
“Nonne videmus, Quid sibi quisque velit, nescire, et quaerere semper Commutare locum, quasi onus deponere possit?”
Michel de MontaigneEssays of Michel de Montaigne — CompleteTranslated by Charles CottonProject Gutenberg ebook #3600
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And, the women coming to the aid of the eloquence of the philosophers, a deluge of anti-restrictive protests has fallen, quasi de vulva erumpens, to make use of a comparison from the Holy Scriptures, upon the wonder-stricken public.
P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) ProudhonSystem of Economical Contradictions; Or, The Philosophy of MiseryProject Gutenberg ebook #444
‘I glory in the professor,’ he wrote to his brother; and to Fleeming himself, with a touch of simple drollery, ‘I was much pleased with your lecture, but why did you hit me so hard with Conisure’s’ (connoisseur’s, quasi amateur’s) ‘engineering?
Robert Louis StevensonMemoir of Fleeming JenkinProject Gutenberg ebook #698