according as
Americanconjunction
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to the extent that; proportionately as.
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depending on whether; if.
I'll stay according as I have the money.
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depending on how.
Etymology
Origin of according as
First recorded in 1475–1500
Example Sentences
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All these I perceive in some measure or other to be in mine, according as I stir or turn myself. . . .
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 8, 2017
Civic movements start or stop according as he nods or shakes his head.
From Time Magazine Archive
Furthermore, if it were relative, a man's value would depend on his material "weight" or worth and could vary according as people find him useful or otherwise.
From Time Magazine Archive
For each housewife places her jar in line, and when the drinking water is turned on, each fills her crock in turn, according as it was put in the row.
From Heroic Spain by O'Reilly, Elizabeth Boyle
It went from one side or the other according as we requested.
From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Flammarion, Camille
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