thereforeadverb
uk/ˈðeə.fɔːr/us/ˈðer.fɔːr/B1 for that reason:
We were unable to get funding and therefore had to abandon the project.
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- The defendant was depressed and therefore not fully responsible for her own actions.
- We are a moral, ethical people and therefore we do not approve of their activities.
- Doctors are short of time to listen and therefore tend to prescribe drugs whenever they can.
- The children will be walking to the cathedral and therefore will need to wear suitable footwear and a sun hat or raincoat, depending on the weather.
- Several members have not replied for over three years and their names have therefore been removed from the mailing list.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Linguistics: connecting words joining words or phrases with similar or related meanings
- and/or 2
- anyways
- concatenate
- conjunctive
- connective
- consequently
- ergo
- hereby
- mean
- moreover
- never
- now
- OK
- so
- sure enough idiom
- the thing is idiom
- there
- thing
- what
- with that idiom
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