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Therefor

Definition: Therefor

Therefor

Adverb

1. (in formal usage; especially legal usage) for that or it; "ordering goods and enclosing payment therefor"; "a refund therefor".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "therefor" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Note: Therefor \There*for"\, adverb. [There for. Compare to Therefore.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: Therefor

English words defined with "therefor": Common informer, Communion serviceTo shape one's self. (references)
Specialty definitions using "therefor": Census Monitoring Boardpatent document, patent specificationrental agreementusufructuary lease. (references)
Etymologies containing "therefor": therefore. (references)

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Historic Usage: Therefor

AuthorDateQuotation

Magna Carta

1215

No constable or other bailiff of ours shall take corn or other provisions from anyone without immediately tendering money therefor, unless he can have postponement thereof by permission of the seller. (reference)

Treaty of Versailles

1919

The exercise of the rights mentioned under (a) and (b) of the present Article shall not interfere with navigability nor reduce the facilities for navigation, either in the bed of the Rhine or in, the derivations which may be substituted therefor, nor shall it involve any increase in the tolls formerly levied under the Convention in force. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Therefor

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Regions and departments may approve polyester construction projects or provide loans therefor no longer. (references)

In the Palestinian Areas (PA) there are no local automotive part manufacturers, therefor the PA is almost 100 percent dependent on imports of automobile parts. (references)

Therefor, imports of cellular phone equipment made in the U.S. enter Israel and can be transported into the PA duty free (see U.S.-Israel Free Trade Agreement). (references)

Economic History

Netherlands

A 2000 survey by Baker & McKenzie into the corporate tax structure of EU Member States observed that, while the official corporate tax rate in the Netherlands is relatively low, the Dutch are among the Member States with the highest effective corporate tax rates (20.67 percent in the year 2001). A further reduction of the corporate tax rate to 30 percent to bring the effective corporate rate closer to the EU average has therefor been proposed. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Therefor

"Therefor" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Therefor" is used about 19 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adverb (general)100%1980,337

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Therefor

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  am i i therefor think

3

  therefor

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Therefor

Language Translations for "therefor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

për këtë (hereof). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

за това (hereof), за тази цел. (various references)

   

Danish

  

opstille faelles definitioner af special-og faguddannelser (to draw up common definitions of skilled trades and qualifications therefor), behørigt begrundet skriftlig kommentar (stating the full reasons therefor, written statement), behørigt begrundet skriftlig bemærkning (stating the full reasons therefor, written statement), afgørelsen og begrundelsen herfor (the decision and the reasons therefor;the decisions taken and the reasons therefor). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

de verschillende soorten van vakarbeid en de kenmerken van vakbekwaamheid omschrijven (to draw up common definitions of skilled trades and qualifications therefor), de beslissing en de motivering ervan (the decision and the reasons therefor;the decisions taken and the reasons therefor), behoorlijk en schriftelijk gemotiveerde weigering (stating the full reasons therefor, written statement). (various references)

   

French

  

par conséquent (thats why, therefore, thus). (various references)

   

German

  

in einer schriftlichen Bemerkung hinreichend begründen (stating the full reasons therefor, written statement), eine gemeinsame Begriffsbestimmung fuer die Fachrichtungen und die Bedingungen fuer die Zuerkennung der Facharbeitereigenschaft aufstellen (to draw up common definitions of skilled trades and qualifications therefor), der Beschluss und seine Begründung (the decision and the reasons therefor;the decisions taken and the reasons therefor). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

διά τούτο (for that reason, thereupon), δι' αυτό. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

azért (in order to, so as to, that is why, that's why, thence, therefore, thereupon, to the end that, wherefore). (various references)

   

Italian

  

per questo (hence, thats why, therefore). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

그 때문에. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ereforthay

   

Portuguese

  

para esse fim. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

pentru aceasta. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

за это. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

za ovo. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

entonces (at that time, now, then). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

utforma en gemensam bestämning av olika slag av fackarbeten och kvalifikationsvillkor (to draw up common definitions of skilled trades and qualifications therefor), skriftlig redogörelse med skälen angivna (stating the full reasons therefor, written statement). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

onun için (therefore). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Therefor

Derivations

Words beginning with "therefor": therefore. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Therefor

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-f-h-o-r-r-t"

-1 letter: thereof.

-2 letters: ferret, hefter, hereof, hereto, hetero, retore, rhetor.

-3 letters: ether, fetor, forte, forth, freer, frere, frore, froth, ofter, other, refer, retro, there, three, throe.

-4 letters: feet, fere, fete, fore, fort, free, fret, froe, heft, here, hero, hoer, reef, reft, rete, rote, thee, thro, tore, torr, tree, tref.

-5 letters: eft, ere, err, eth, fee, feh.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-f-h-o-r-r-t"
 

+1 letter: therefore, therefrom.

 

+2 letters: forefather, foregather, foremother, heretofore.

 

+3 letters: forefathers, foregathers, foremothers, foreshorten, forgathered, furthermore, heterograft, theretofore.

 

+4 letters: flamethrower, foregathered, foreshortens, heterografts, motherfucker, thermoformed, weatherproof.

 

+5 letters: flamethrowers, foregathering, foreshortened, horsefeathers, motherfuckers, thenceforward, weatherproofs.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Therefor


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 68 65 72 65 66 6F 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-    ....    .    .-.    .    ..-.    ---    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01101000 01100101 01110010 01100101 01100110 01101111 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#104 &#101 &#114 &#101 &#102 &#111 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0068 0065 0072 0065 0066 006F 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5474718471728184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Historic
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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