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Is It Grammatically Correct to Say as per?
Many wonder whether the as in as per is superfluous. Wouldn’t the phrase “per your instructions” mean much the same thing as “as per your instructions?” In that case, would it be incorrect to insert the extra word?
The fact is that both per and as per have existed in English in the sense “according to” for a very long time–since the 15th and 16th centuries, respectively. The choice of which to use (or avoid) is entirely a matter of taste. The more ponderous as per is often found in business and legal prose, or in writing that attempts to adopt a formal tone. It is not incorrect to use, but some find it overly legalistic and counsel avoiding it for that reason. On the other hand, it has been used to good effect in facetious mock-business-English (“as per the President’s shiny new Environmental Policy Act”). As in so many matters of diction, the tonal needs of a particular passage should guide your choice.
Examples of as per in a Sentence
Evelyn Cheng,matthew Chin, CNBC, 9 June 2026
The first round of Social Security payments for June is scheduled to be distributed this week, as per the agency's normal schedule.
—Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 8 June 2026
The Praearcturus gigas lived during the Early Devonian period—a time when forests had not yet evolved—so this giant scorpion lived among small plants and fungi, as per the press release.
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 7 June 2026
An amendment to the city’s nutrition center budget, which preserves the program’s daily meal cap at 250 rather than reducing it to 200 as per staff recommendation, sparked the meeting’s sharpest exchanges.
—Walker Armstrong, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2026
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“As per.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/as%20per. Accessed 16 Jun. 2026.
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