wouldn't

American  

[wood-nt] / ˈwʊd nt /

1. contraction of would not:

   I wouldn't ask her.

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wouldn't British  

/ ˈwʊdənt /

contraction

1. would not

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wouldn't Idioms  

More idioms and phrases containing wouldn't

• butter wouldn't melt
• caught dead, wouldn't be
• not
• not (wouldn't) lift a finger

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Usage

See contraction.

Example Sentences

By offloading the menial stuff to an artificial-intelligence, she says she has freed up time she wouldn’t otherwise have, time she now spends taking guitar and singing lessons.

From The Wall Street Journal

Some of the crucial work done at Bell Labs might now seem mundane: for example, how to fabricate sheathing so undersea cables wouldn’t be chewed through by Toredo worms.

From The Wall Street Journal

But it was clear the innovation wouldn’t necessarily be limited to telephones.

From The Wall Street Journal

The idea is that oil around $90 still would cost Americans more at the gas pump, but it wouldn’t necessarily ruin their finances or the U.S. economy.

From MarketWatch

That includes Hutchins, Texas, near Dallas, which was expecting a 9,000-person detention center until the warehouse owner, Majestic Realty, said last month that it wouldn’t sell to ICE, though it declined to say why.

From The Wall Street Journal