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thereabouts

thereabouts

7 5.9
At about that time, date, or number
  • adverb
  • /ˌðɛrəˈbaʊts/
translation icon : aproximadamente
  • The meeting will start at three o'clock or thereabouts.

They tend to launch things either at GTC or thereabouts.

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Examples

  • I believe those were published in 1996 or thereabouts.

    Academic text (1999)

  • A guru regularly arrives at midnight or thereabouts, making it difficult for him to attend.

    Blog text (12)

  • Six years right thereabouts and I just never really put a priority on it.

  • But, you know, does it matter that he is talking for a couple hours every day or thereabouts on Twitter?

    ReasonTV

  • All in the first month, or thereabouts.

    Black Widow (1987)

  • A hundred names... or thereabouts.

    Heaven's Gate (1980)

  • - Nine o'clock or thereabouts.

    Jamaica Inn (1939)

  • We will be lucky if we only back up in time to say the 1880s or thereabouts.

    Blog text (4)

  • Up until around 1975 or thereabouts, the American left was all about bridging those gaps.

    Blog text (34)

  • IDEA led the implementation of its version of IGE from 1969 to 1976 or thereabouts.

    Academic text (1992)

Synonyms

thereabout
vsthereabouts
1 6.5

At or near that time

includes the same idea but also covers amounts or places
or thereabout
vsthereabouts
7.0

At about that time, place, or number

is used for approximation more generally across time, place, or quantity

How Exact

exactly
∞ 1.0
thereabouts
7 5.9
approximately
524 3.2
roughly
373 1.6

Surface Forms

thereabouts positive

Morphology

thereabouts = there (transparent) = about + there + s

The meaning 'approximately'/'near that place or time' is directly built from 'there' + 'about' with a final -s forming the idiomatic adverb. [Postprocessing: moved 'about' from base_words to prefix]

Etymology

Thereabouts comes from the simple parts there ('that time or place') and about ('around'), so you can picture something happening 'around that time or amount'. So it means 'approximately that' — for example, noon or 'thereabouts'.