in other words

Idioms  

1. Putting it differently, usually more simply or explicitly. For example, The weather was terrible, the plane took off several hours after the scheduled time, and then fog prevented their landing—in other words, they never got to the wedding at all. [Mid-1800s]

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Example Sentences

Historians have not, in other words, laid him to unanimous rest.

From The Wall Street Journal

Saban was college football’s foremost architect, but he still needed someone he could trust to provide him with the best materials—in other words, a recruiting coordinator.

From The Wall Street Journal

The children of Mr. Luzzi’s book are, in other words, the dark side of the Italian Renaissance.

From The Wall Street Journal

Some analysts even wonder if the economy is morphing into a so-called jobless expansion — in other words, an economy that is growing but adding very few, if any, net jobs.

From MarketWatch

Some analysts even wonder if the economy is morphing into a so-called jobless expansion — in other words, an economy that is growing but adding very few, if any, net jobs.

From MarketWatch

Related Words

• especially
• i.e.
• particularly
• specially
• specifically