"effect" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Montana and several other states have recently adopted laws to prevent intoxication from being used, in effect, as an excuse for a crime.
- Instead of spending heavily on advertising, Starbucks uses its stores to promote itself - in effect, turning each store into a kind of billboard.
- Unlike other mutual funds, mortgage funds use forms of leverage, in effect, borrowing money to have a bigger portfolio.
- Here the term "Dymaxion" is used in effect to signify a "radically strong and light tensegrity structure".
- Not using this feature in effect defeats the purpose of the software.
- The researchers used various experiments to measure psychological characteristics, in effect quantifying those drives.
- The asylum was used, in effect, as a boarding school.
- In Cavendish's time, physicists used the same units for mass and weight, in effect taking as a standard acceleration.
- But you can also use your laptop or even desktop as a base station, in effect, and that's called an ad hoc network.
- Such programs can be used to provide, in effect, insurance that only comes into play in otherwise "bad" years.
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