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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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But minus those few things, for working somewhere 25 years, the net experience has been very positive.
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In fact, the border patrol seizes more drugs than any other agency minus the Coast Guard in the entire United States.
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Last Supper minus disciples, the Lord and even sans babysitter nurse.
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Ruff Date Because Arie likes dogs, the producers send the women to The Grove to put on a dog-and-pony show minus the ponies.
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First of all, readers should know that this is supposed to reflect lifetime (i.e., 40 years) fiscal impact (taxes paid minus services used) of immigrants by education.
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The Infiniti then began driving--minus a tire, which blew out when the car hit a curb, forcing the vehicle to travel at high speeds on a rim--on the shoulder of I-10 until the intersection with U.S. 51, where the car collided into an 18-wheeler.
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Disney’s version of the Madeleine L’Engle young-adult novel is a magical mystery tour minus the magic and mystery, and a great disappointment, since there were so many reasons to root for the film’s success.
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Rippon’s error-free skate, albeit minus the quad jumps, landed him in seventh place while teammate Vincent Zhou is in 12th.
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Origin and Etymology of minus
Other Mathematics and Statistics Terms
Definition of minus
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: 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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Carlyle values the veteran for his experience and toughness, but the turnover-prone defenseman has a team-worst plus-minus rating of minus-13.
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Your taxable income is your AGI minus allowances for personal exemptions and itemized deductions.
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Auburn's first-team defense held the second-team offense to minus-five yards in the first half and the quarterbacks combined to go 15 of 39 for 90 yards.
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The Timbers are tied for 19th in the league with just four goals through four matches and a minus-five goal differential.
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According to new details, which were reported by Deadline, former producer Witlieb Bernstein received a settlement of about $106,466 (minus deductions) in 2002.
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The starting unit mostly held its own against the Celtics when looking at plus-minus — Blake Griffin had the worst at minus-9.
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Eastwood's dramatic thriller about the true story wasn't well-received by critics or audiences, who gave the film a poor B-minus on CinemaScore.
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His only grade below A in his high school career was an A-minus in Advanced Placement Physics.
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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
1
: 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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Count back from 100 to one by minus six, then subtracting four.
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All-Star point guard Goran Dragic was 4 of 12 shooting for 10 points in 23 minutes and a team-worst minus 22 for the game.
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All nine full-time assistant coaches signed two-year contracts before the 2017 season and were not retained, meaning Oregon State owes them each the final year of salary minus earnings from their next job.
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In the Red Wings 0-9-1 losing streak, Larkin has three points and is minus-7; Athanasiou has three points and is minus-3; Mantha has five points and is minus-6; and Bertuzzi has seven points and is minus-four.
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Social-purpose criteria, as determined by BlackRock for proxy voting, won’t hurt the firm’s relative returns because most large passive funds achieve similar returns minus fund-specific expenses.
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Temperatures get down to minus 12 degrees Fahrenheit during a typical January day, but temperatures as low as minus 44 F have been recorded there.
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Burlington, Vermont, and Portland, Maine set records, with Burlington falling to minus 20, beating a 1923 record by a degree, and Portland recording minus 11, also a degree below a 1941 record.
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This could be a first-round playoff preview but New Orleans is minus star big man Boogie Cousins for the rest of the season.
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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
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: 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
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