| 词组 | in all but name |
| 释义 | Idiom in all but name if a situation exists in all but name, it exists although it is not officially described that way.They'd been living together for over ten years. It was a marriage in all but name. in all but nameIn every way except for how someone or something is named or described. I schedule the roster, I order inventory, and I hire new staff—I'm really the manager in all but name. If you have kids and a mortgage together, you're pretty much married in all but name. in all but nameexisting in a particular state but not formally recognized as such. 1999 Chris Hulme Manslaughter United He had spent twenty-one out of twenty-five years in segregation (solitary confinement in all but name). in ˌall but ˈnameused to describe a situation which exists in reality but that is not officially recognized: He runs the company in all but name. |
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