in effect
English
Adjective
- Operating or functioning; in force; in play.
- Until the new guidelines come out, the old rules are still in effect.
- Actually, practically.
- 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:
- Yet in “Through a Latte, Darkly”, a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain, Edward Kleinbard […] shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate what he calls “stateless income”: […]. In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.
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See also
- into effect
- take effect
Adverb
- For all practical purposes; in practice; virtually; essentially; basically.
- Synonym: effectively
- Separated from the rest of Heathrow, this would, in effect, be a second airport. — The Guardian, Aug 21 2007, George Monbiot.
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