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TO A GREAT EXTENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does to a great extent mean? 

TO A GREAT EXTENT (adverb)
  The adverb TO A GREAT EXTENT has 1 sense:

1. to a considerable degreeplay

  Familiarity information: TO A GREAT EXTENT used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TO A GREAT EXTENT (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

To a considerable degree

Synonyms:

heavily; to a great extent

Context example:

he relied heavily on others' data


 Context examples 


Mr. Micawber's affairs, although past their crisis, were very much involved by reason of a certain Deed, of which I used to hear a great deal, and which I suppose, now, to have been some former composition with his creditors, though I was so far from being clear about it then, that I am conscious of having confounded it with those demoniacal parchments which are held to have, once upon a time, obtained to a great extent in Germany.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)



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