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C2 using exactly the same words: She listened to everything I said and repeated it word for word to her mum. → See also word-for-wordAccurate and exact › If you translate speech or writing word for word, you change one word at a time in the same order rather than in phrases or other larger units of meaning.Using other languages
(Definition of word for word from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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SMART Thesaurus: Accurate and exact
Synonyms and related words:
- accuracy noun
- accurate adjective
- aright adverb
- authoritative adjective
- bang adverb
- be bang on idiom
- exact adjective
- exactly adverb
- infallible adjective
- infallibly adverb
- letter-perfect adjective
- literal adjective
- on the nose idiom
- sharp adverb (EXACTLY)
- strictly speaking idiom
- technically adverb
- to the day idiom
- to the letter idiom
- truly adverb (EXACTLY)
- unerring adjective
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