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if, as and when en · ADV

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1. (informal, not-comparable) In the event that the thing being discussed comes to pass.
   • The whole thing, Tyne decided, would make a nice problem to mull over in his old age -- if, as, and when. 1988, Harry Brown, A Walk in the Sun, →ISBN, page 75:
   • We'll talk about appeals if, as and when. 2001, The Man Who Wasn't There, spoken by Freddy Riedenschneider (Tony Shalhoub):
   • 1944, Thomas Reed Powell, letter to William O. Douglas, quoted in Melvin I. Urofsky (1989), '"Dear Teacher": The Correspondence of William O. Douglas and Thomas Reed Powell', Law and History Review 7(2), page 364, No one cares about what a judge thinks, if, as and when. All that counts is what he says.