minus

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/ˈmaɪ.nəs/

adj 4noun 3prep 2verb 1name 1

Collocations

ADJ.

last, many, outside, outside, overnight, registered

He arrived last night minus his passport, which caused problems at the airport.

VERB + MINUS

get, package, plunged, reach, root, square, walked, went

The company plunged minus five million dollars in the third quarter.

MINUS + NOUN

'i', celsius, centigrade, contents, degrees, night, number

It was minus five degrees when we woke up this morning.

PREP.

around, down, out

He got the job minus the generous salary package he'd been hoping for.

ADV.

usually

She usually arrives at work by nine, minus the occasional delay on Mondays.

Definitions

prep

Made less or reduced by (followed by an expression of number or quantity).

Seven minus two is five.

Without; deprived of.

I walked out minus my coat.

noun

The minus sign (−).

On the third day a Master Barnard brings me up a slate full of plusses, minusses, x, y, z’s, and other letters of the alphabet, in a most amiable algebraical confusion.

A negative quantity.

A downside or disadvantage.

He valued Roderick’s friendship with the highest value he put on anything nowadays. Over the years they had assessed each other’s plusses and minusses and settled for the difference.

As with LCR tout court the question is less to do with the plusses and minusses of the individual ideologies in themselves than in their relationship with their opposite numbers, in this case of Reason with Emotion.

adj

Being a negative quantity; pertaining to a deficit or reduction.

a minus number

That is below zero by (a specified amount) on a scale.

minus seven degrees

Worse off than before; out of pocket.

The races being finished, we left Epsom for London, Mordaunt's natural vile temper not being at all improved by being three hundred pounds minus by the week's speculation […] .

Ranking just below (a designated rating).

He got a grade of B minus for his essay.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — an arithmetic operation in which the difference between two

subtraction

adjective — involving disadvantage or harm

negative

Antonyms

plus

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

Seven minus two is five.

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I walked out minus my coat.

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On the third day a Master Barnard brings me up a slate full of plusses, minusses, x, y, z’s, and other letters of the alphabet, in a most amiable algebraical confusion.

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He valued Roderick’s friendship with the highest value he put on anything nowadays. Over the years they had assessed each other’s plusses and minusses and settled for the difference.

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a minus number

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, minus is marked as informal, obsolete, colloquial. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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