[
US
/ˈvizəvi/
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NOUN
- a person or thing having the same function or characteristics as another
- small sofa that seats two people
ADVERB
-
face-to-face with; literally `face to face'
I found myself vis-a-vis a burly policeman
they sat vis-a-vis at the table
How To Use vis-a-vis In A Sentence
- Johannesburg's mayor in terms of the Gatherings Act. In a statement released at the venue, the SAJBD and SAZF's media response team, the two bodies "absolved" Wits "totally from any responsibility vis-à-vis the safety and security of members of the audience and the media". ANC Daily News Briefing
- I realize the title of my report sounds bizarre, but before you label me insane, consider the following well-established fact -- The Telemark Polyp Study demonstrated a 57% increase in mortality among patients screened for colon cancer vis-à-vis unscreened controls. Snow Day! 'Snow day for a colonoscopy....
- DW-TV Asia+ has '18 hours of primetime English specifically for Indians' vis-a-vis its counterpart DW-TV Asia, which has 16 hours of German content, she said. India eNews
- they sat vis-a-vis at the table
- We could speak about the meaning of life vis-a-vis non-consequential/deontological theories, apodictic transformation schemata, the incoherence of exemplification, metaphysical realism, Cartesian interactive dualism, revised non-reactive dualism, postmodernist grammatology and dicey dichotomies. Onion soup | smitten kitchen
- As a leading Pakistani columnist reported, during a recent meeting held for journalists, a senior military official complained that the real American strategy vis-à-vis Pakistan was to "de-nuclearize Pakistan. Aparna Pande: WikiLeaks Exposes Pakistan's Rhetoric
- I have always liked Clarence Darrow's observation about the existence vis-Ã-vis non-existence of God: "I do not pretend to know what ignorant men are sure of. Vincent Bugliosi: Why Do I Doubt Both The Atheists And The Theists?
- Women's salaries are low vis-a-vis what men earn for the same work.
- Yeh log toh hameshaa hii aallah-zarf log rahe hain (people of higher intelect), how can we imagine to put ourselves at a higher level vis-a-vis them and do the critiqing on them because we can do critiqing on another person only when we are at a level which is "one plus" the person we are attempting to criticise. Kafila
- The rise in the population of the leopard and the imbalance in territoriality vis-à-vis the carrying capacity of the habitat has also caused this versatile animal to adapt itself to the new equations.
