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Examples of minus in a Sentence
He left the restaurant minus his hat.
a fruit that looks like a peach, minus the fuzz
Recent Examples of minus from the Web
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The Rangers are on the hook for all of Jackson's contract, minus the prorated league minimum that a team that claims him would have to pay this season.
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Shutterstock Today, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are celebrating their nephew Prince Louis' christening with the immediate royals (minus the Queen and Prince Philip).
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City Manager Vicky Rudy led the meeting Wednesday, June 27 at City Hall and told the mayor and city council members, minus Frances Planchard, that city’s capital improvement finances could eventually stagnate by 2020.
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Across Georgia in 2017, net migration accounted for a larger share — 58 percent — of the population growth than did natural increase (the total number of births minus deaths statewide).
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This loop hike is the most popular trail in the park, so doing it at night is the way to see it minus the crowds — and perhaps with views of moose.
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His backup band was basically The Sharks, minus the drummer.
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Remarkably, the lowest temperatures observed at all of these hollows on the ice sheet was right around minus 98 Celsius, even though some of them were spaced tens of miles apart.
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This time Claire is minus her high heels from the last film.
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Origin and Etymology of minus
Middle English, from Latin minus, adverb, less, from neuter of minor smaller — more at minor
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First Known Use: 15th century
in the meaning defined at sense 1
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Definition of minus
1
: a negative quantity
2
: a negative quality;
especially
: drawback
Examples of minus in a Sentence
She decided that the pluses of owning a home outweighed the minuses.
Some employers see a lack of experience as a real minus.
Put the minus to the left of the number.
Recent Examples of minus from the Web
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Southampton will be looking to strengthen their back line after finishing with a minus 19 goal difference last term.
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Ultimately, however, with nothing in writing that would honor this commitment, all council members — minus Scott Benson, who was absent — voted in favor of the new district.
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As a rider in leases facilitated by Century 21, the host gets 70 percent of their Airbnb revenue (the booking cost minus Airbnb's three percent cut), their landlord receives 23 percent, and Century 21 takes seven percent.
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Here’s a fun scenario that’s not implausible: Myers exhales, now that Hosmer is on board to handle the attention, and the two sluggers form a right-left hitting tandem that is Grade-B or B-minus productive this summer and over the next two seasons.
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Steven and Jameson Valladares had the best net score (gross score minus handicap) in the traditional division (just fathers and sons) with 33.
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David Perron, who had just an assist and a minus-two rating over the first three games of the Final, was a healthy scratch.
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The vaccine -- called rVSV-ZEBOV -- must be kept between minus 60 and minus 80 degrees Celsius (minus 76 to minus 112 degrees Fahrenheit) and are believed to last two weeks under basic refrigeration.
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At his private club in New Jersey this weekend, Trump has been consulting with aides and advisers, including Vice President Mike Pence, who flew up to work through the pluses and minuses of each candidate.
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First Known Use of minus
1708
minus Synonyms
Synonyms
debit, disadvantage, downside, drawback, handicap, incommodity, liability, negative, strike;
Near Antonyms
head start, jump, lead, margin, start;
ascendancy (also ascendency), better, command, control, drop, mastery, predominance, superiority, supremacy, transcendence, upper hand;
aid, assistance, help;
Related Words
albatross, millstone, stranglehold;
bar, catch, check, clog, crimp, embarrassment, hindrance, hitch, hurdle, impediment, interference, let, manacle, obstacle, obstruction, rub, shackle, stop, trammel;
Other Mathematics and Statistics Terms
Definition of minus
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: algebraically negative
- a minus quantity
- minus ten degrees
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: having a negative quality
3
: relating to or being a particular one of the two mating types that are required for successful fertilization in sexual reproduction in some lower plants (such as a fungus)
4
: falling low in a specified range
- B minus
Recent Examples of minus from the Web
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On April 29th the Treasury in Rome managed to place 5.5bn of six-month bills, but at a rate of 1.213%—up from minus 0.421% at the last comparable auction on May 26th.
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Getting frostbite in temperatures of minus 30 degrees celsius, Elham says mental resilience is what nudged her through.
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In the eurozone, rates have stayed pegged at negative levels—now at minus 0.4%—since 2014.
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The winter of 1876 was severe, with fierce wind and temperatures dipping to minus 30.
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Sometimes those individual plus/minus numbers can deceive.
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Phil Mickelson won the Buick Invitational that year with a minus 55.
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When there is a points tie, the first tiebreaker is goal difference (goals-for minus goals-against) in group matches.
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But there are still an estimated thirty thousand homeless people in Hungary who on Wednesday were due to endure temperatures of over minus ten degrees Celsius overnight.
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First Known Use of minus
1776
Other Mathematics and Statistics Terms
MINUS Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of minus for English Language Learners
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—used to indicate that one number or amount is being subtracted from another
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: not having (something)
minus
Definition of minus for English Language Learners
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: having a value that is below zero
MINUS Defined for Kids
Definition of minus for Students
Definition of minus for Students
1
: having a value that is below zero
- The temperature was minus 15.
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: located in the lower part of a range
- a grade of C minus
Medical Dictionary
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