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• preposition 1 expressing direction or position in relation to a particular location, point, or condition. 2 chiefly Brit. (in telling the time) before (the hour specified). 3 identifying the person or thing affected. 4 identifying a particular relationship between one person or thing and another. 5 indicating a rate of return on something. 6 indicating that two things are attached. 7 governing a phrase expressing someone’s reaction to something: to her astonishment, he smiled. 8 used to introduce the second element in a comparison. • infinitive marker used with the base form of a verb to indicate that the verb is in the infinitive. • adverb so as to be closed or nearly closed. — ORIGIN Old English.
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