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What (who) is versus - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Versus (Film); Versus (movie); VERSUS; Versus (album); Versus (disambiguation); 🆚; Versus (episode); Versus (film); Versus (song)
versus
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FRENCH SINGER-SONGWRITER
Peine & pitié; Charlotte Gonin; Vitaa discography; VersuS (album); VersuS; Versus (Vitaa and Slimane album); De l'or
prep.
(Law.) Against.
versus
FRENCH SINGER-SONGWRITER
Peine & pitié; Charlotte Gonin; Vitaa discography; VersuS (album); VersuS; Versus (Vitaa and Slimane album); De l'or
¦ preposition (especially in sporting and legal use) against.
?as opposed to; in contrast to.
Origin
ME: from a med. L. use of L. versus 'towards'.
versus
FRENCH SINGER-SONGWRITER
Peine & pitié; Charlotte Gonin; Vitaa discography; VersuS (album); VersuS; Versus (Vitaa and Slimane album); De l'or
1.
You use versus to indicate that two figures, ideas, or choices are opposed.
Only 18.8% of the class of 1982 had some kind of diploma four years after high school, versus 45% of the class of 1972.
...bottle-feeding versus breastfeeding.
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2.
Versus is used to indicate that two teams or people are competing against each other in a sporting event.
Italy versus Japan is turning out to be a surprisingly well matched competition.
= against
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Examples of use of versus
1. "It‘s not about rich versus poor, young versus old and it‘s not about black versus white.
2. Ali versus Frasier ... Coe versus Ovett ... Borg versus McEnroe were among the most common analogies.
3. It was part Arab versus African, part government versus rebel, part nomad versus farmer.
4. The games pitch farm kids versus city kids, rich schools versus poor, religious institutions versus secular or state schools, west coast versus east coast, liberal institutions versus conservative and north versus south.
5. It will be about faith versus fear, division versus unity, lies versus truth, rhetoric versus reality –– and that‘s just the primary." The room explodes in laughter.