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that/this way

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Definition of that/this way

: by doing that/this
  • Let's stop here. That/This way we can look at the map before we get off the highway.

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way play

  1. : a thoroughfare for travel or transportation from place to place

  2. : an opening for passage

  3. : the course traveled from one place to another : route

  1. : of, connected with, or constituting an intermediate point on a route

  1. : by a long distance : to a considerable degree or extent : far

  2. : by far : much

  3. : very

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