in the neighborhood of

Idioms and Phrases

Also, in the region of . Approximately, about, as in They paid in the neighborhood of a million dollars , or I don't know exactly what the exchange rate is—somewhere in the region of 95 yen to the dollar . The first expression dates from the mid-1800s, the variant from the mid-1900s.

Related Words

• about
• approximately
• around
• essentially
• most
• much
• practically
• relatively
• roughly
• virtually