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Pronunciation
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As a summary; as a shortened version of what has been told or what would have been told.
It was, in short, saved before - and looks to be once more.
2025 February 5, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Railway heritage saved in 2024”, in RAIL, number 1028, page 53, about Liverpool Street station in London:Mr Snagsby has dealt in all sorts of blank forms of legal process; in skins and rolls of parchment; in paper—foolscap, brief, draft, brown, white, whitey-brown, and blotting; in stamps; in office-quills, pens, ink, India-rubber, pounce, pins, pencils, sealing-wax, and wafers; in red tape, and green ferret; in pocket-books, almanacs, diaries, and law lists; in string boxes, rulers, inkstands—glass and leaden, penknives, scissors, bodkins, and other small office-cutlery; in short, in articles too numerous to mention.
1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter X, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:Most political experts expect the Minnesota election to be decided in the courts or even in the state senate. In short, it's a mess.
2008 December 4, Kate Pickert, “A Brief History of Recounts”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2013:I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, / And in short, I was afraid.
1915 June, T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, in Prufrock and Other Observations, London: The Egoist […], published 1917, →OCLC, page 13:In short, the line did not pay, and it was closed to passenger traffic on September 22, 1930, and to all traffic on April 3, 1950.
1960 April 14, J. M. Dunn, “The Anglesey Central Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 227:[H]e told me I did not treat him as if he was my husband, or talk of my children as if I was a mother; and, in short, that I did not deserve to be used as a wife.
1722 (indicated as 1721), [Daniel Defoe], The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c. […], London: […] W[illiam Rufus] Chetwood, […]; and T. Edling, […], published 1722, →OCLC:
Synonyms
in a word · at the end of the day · in summary · in a nutshell
Translations (52)
ru коро́че говоря́ (as a summary) · fr en bref (as a summary) · el εν συντομία (as a summary) · el εν ολίγοις (as a summary) · cmn 總之 /总之 (as a summary) · fa خلاصه (as a summary) · ru одни́м сло́вом (as a summary) · pt em suma (as a summary) · it in sostanza (as a summary) · txb aultsorsa (as a summary) · si කෙටියෙන් (as a summary) · ca en resum (as a summary) · ro pe scurt (as a summary) · hu egyszóval (as a summary) · pl w kilku słowach (as a summary) · pt resumindo (as a summary) · la dēnique (as a summary) · grc ἔμβραχυ (as a summary) · ca tot plegat (as a summary) · grc ἐν βραχεῖ (as a summary) · nb i korthet (as a summary) · yi אַ כּלל (as a summary) · fi lyhyesti sanottuna (as a summary) · am በአጭሩ (as a summary) · it in breve (as a summary) · ba ҡыҫҡаһы (as a summary) · de kurzum (as a summary) · ar بِاخْتِصَار (as a summary) · hi संक्षेप में (as a summary) · ja 要するに (as a summary) · sv summa summarum (as a summary) · pt para resumir (as a summary) · pt em resumo (as a summary) · ba оҙон һүҙҙең ҡыҫҡыһы (as a summary) · sv i korthet (as a summary) · nl in het kort (as a summary) · it in quattro parole (as a summary) · ba әйтәгүр (as a summary) · fr en résumé (as a summary) · fr en un mot (as a summary) · fa به اختصار (as a summary) · pt resumidamente (as a summary) · ha a taƙaice (as a summary) · tr kısaca (as a summary) · es resumiendo (as a summary) · he בקיצור (as a summary) · es en resumen (as a summary) · uk коро́тше ка́жучи (as a summary) · hu röviden (as a summary) · pl w skrócie (as a summary) · ur اختصار کے ساتھ (as a summary) · he בְּקִצּוּר (as a summary)