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vice versa

Adverb CEFR B2
ˈvaɪsɪ ˈvɜːsə

Definitions

  1. Archaic spelling of vice versa.
    alt-of, archaic, not-comparable
  2. The same but with the two items mentioned reversed.
    not-comparable

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Examples

Since there are two contestants left in the race, either Bob will come first place and Alice second place, or vice versa.”
The most loved scholar of the university wrote a memorable diary to his students, and vice versa, the students wrote to him.”
“I’m going to give her a diamond necklace for her birthday, and vice versa, she’s going to get me a Premium Pass for FIFA 24 for mine.”
“[I]f the Doctrines, the sum of which I believe to constitute the Truth in Christ, be Christianity, then Unitarianism is not, and vice versâ: […]”
His Britannic Majesty, and His Royal Highness the Prince Regent of Portugal, do stipulate and agree, that there shall be a perfect reciprocity on the subject of the Duties and Imposts to be paid by the Ships and Vessels of the High Contracting Parties, within the several Ports, Harbours, Roads, and Anchoring-places belonging to each of them; to wit, that the Ships and Vessels of the Subjects of His Britannic Majesty shall not pay any higher Duties or Imposts (under whatsoever name they be designated or implied) within the Dominions of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent of Portugal, than the Ships and Vessels belonging to the Subjects of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent of Portugal shall be bound to pay within the Dominions of His Britannic Majesty, and vice versâ.”
Baird then proceeds to treat of the eastward movement of American birds, and its influence on the ornis of Greenland and Europe, and vice versâ.”
Even in the same sentence we often find a purely Japanese construction interrupted by a phrase which it is impossible to consider as anything but clumsy Chinese; while, vice versâ, his Chinese contains expressions not to be understood without a knowledge of Japanese.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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