minus

Definitions

1. The minus sign (−).
2. A surname.
3. A negative quantity.
4. A downside or disadvantage.

Equivalents

Examples

“On the third day a Master Barnard brings me up a slate full of plusses, minusses, x, y, z’s, and other letters of the alphabet, in a most amiable algebraical confusion.”

“He valued Roderick’s friendship with the highest value he put⟳ on anything nowadays. Over the years they had assessed each other’s plusses and minusses and settled for the difference.”

“As with LCR tout court the question⟳ is less to do with the plusses and minusses of the individual ideologies in themselves than in their relationship with their opposite numbers, in this case of Reason⟳ with Emotion.”

“When Morrison mulls the pluses and minuses associated with rebuking Kelly for undermining the government’s public health messaging, the prime minister faces a genuine substantive dilemma, and that goes to the risks of amplification.”

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