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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
accordingly
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
act
▪ We humans all know we are going to die one day and we act accordingly.
▪ In regular high schools, they say, they are treated like nine-year-olds-and often act accordingly.
▪ Your horse can feel your mood and will act accordingly!
▪ If he doesn't you stand warned of the type of person you are dealing with and should act accordingly.
▪ Her courtiers have all been informed of this decision and have acted accordingly.
▪ He believed that recession was a more immediate enemy than inflation and acted accordingly.
▪ The Town Clerk of Liverpool was quite aware of this and acted accordingly.
▪ The ancient people seemed well aware of the qualities of the spaces and acted accordingly.
adjust
▪ This unit auto-senses the mains voltage, and adjusts accordingly, so is most likely to benefit international travellers.
▪ If renal failure persists, the dosage must be adjusted accordingly.
▪ It's a fact that most strikers of his quality learn very early about their strengths and weaknesses, and adjust accordingly.
▪ If you set new tab stops, the table next will adjust accordingly.
▪ The current textual unit size is adjusted accordingly.
▪ The proportion of discounted seats was adjusted accordingly, down to each flight segment.
▪ Turnover, cost of materials sold, net revenues and administrative expenses have been adjusted accordingly.
▪ Such control requires that the oxygen concentration in the blood be accurately measured, and that breathing rate be adjusted accordingly.
construe
▪ References in the Code to exempt fund managers are construed accordingly.
plan
▪ This project accordingly plans to formalise and devise a computational implementation of Fodor-Sperber-Wilson assumptions about language and language processing.
▪ But Daley, one of the leaders, knew it, and he began planning accordingly.
respond
▪ They review them and respond accordingly.
▪ Salespeople should therefore look out for such buying signals and respond accordingly.
▪ Surely, circumstances have now changed and any reasonable Attorney-General would respond accordingly.
▪ It is too ambitious for a financial organisation to hope to recognise such situations and respond accordingly?
▪ The television viewing public had seen images of violence and expected political leaders to acknowledge them and to respond accordingly and responsibly.
▪ Thus the machine automatically differentiates between an incoming fax signal and voice call and will respond accordingly.
▪ Government needs to listen to the public and respond accordingly.
▪ It was the customer himself who recognised professionalism when he saw it and responded accordingly.
suffer
▪ Mrs Thatcher's ability to impose her personality upon it suffered accordingly.
▪ Orkney Islands Council abdicated all responsibility to its social work department: my children were made to suffer accordingly.
▪ Profits and international competitiveness suffered accordingly.
▪ In the Mercedes, tall drivers can really stretch their legs but, not surprisingly, those behind will suffer accordingly.
treat
▪ So if you make it something you can expect to be ignored or treated accordingly.
▪ In fact, people are fat for different reasons and should be treated accordingly.
▪ Those who resisted were denounced as mutineers and treated accordingly.
vary
▪ The reader's criteria for judging articles will vary accordingly.
▪ The needs of the mentally handicapped vary accordingly.
▪ The level of activity in cortical cells varies, and their ability to excite other cells varies accordingly.
▪ Modern breeds stem from these varieties, and feet vary accordingly.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Decide how much you can spend, and shop accordingly.
▪ There aren't many jobs available. Accordingly, companies receive hundreds of resumés for every opening.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Christians, accordingly, are bound by obedience to their Lord to take their enemies seriously.
▪ He takes them for what they are, and deals with them accordingly.
▪ He was accordingly arrested and taken to Vine Street Police Station where he duly provided two specimens of breath in the intoximeter.
▪ Perhaps young people perceive that our current values of the pursuit of wealth and power are hollow and react accordingly.
▪ Polly's landlord claimed that Polly lived in a studio-style maisonette and had set the rent accordingly.
▪ This paper has accordingly sought to provide a framework for future research in this important area.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Accordingly

Accordingly \Ac*cord"ing*ly\, adv.

  1. Agreeably; correspondingly; suitably; in a manner conformable.

    Behold, and so proceed accordingly.
    --Shak.

  2. In natural sequence; consequently; so.

    Syn: Consequently; therefore; wherefore; hence; so.

    Usage: Accordingly, Consequently, indicate a connection between two things, the latter of which is done on account of the former. Accordingly marks the connection as one of simple accordance or congruity, leading naturally to the result which followed; as, he was absent when I called, and I accordingly left my card; our preparations were all finished, and we accordingly set sail. Consequently all finished, and we accordingly set sail. Consequently marks a closer connection, that of logical or causal sequence; as, the papers were not ready, and consequently could not be signed.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
accordingly

mid-14c., "in agreement with," from according + -ly (2). From mid-15c. as "properly; adequately;" meaning "in agreement with logic or expectation" is recorded 1680s.

Wiktionary
accordingly

adv. 1 (context manner English) agreeably; correspondingly; suitably; in a manner conformable. 2 (context conjunctive English) In natural sequence; consequently; so.

WordNet
accordingly
  1. adv. (sentence connectors) because of the reason given; "consequently, he didn't do it"; "continued to have severe headaches and accordingly returned to the doctor" [syn: consequently]

  2. in accordance with; "she acted accordingly"

Usage examples of "accordingly".

Accordingly he had, from time to time, accommodated him with small trifles, which barely served to support his existence, and even for these had taken notes of hand, that he might have a scourge over his head, in case he should prove insolent or refractory.

In a time like ours, when we are primarily concerned with the practical application of scientific discoveries, we are mostly accustomed to regard such flights of thought from a past age as nothing but the unessential accompaniment of youthful, immature science, and to smile at them accordingly as historical curiosities.

Accordingly, He experienced death by sharing in our human feeling, which of His own accord He had taken upon Himself, but He did not lose the power of His Nature, through which He gives life to all things.

He accordingly took possession of Comachio and some other places, pretending they were allodial estates belonging to the duke of Modena, and fiefs of the emperor, to which the holy see had no lawful claim.

Which it has accordingly done, Anarchism being one of the notable new creeds of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Accordingly he seized the pen with great confidence, and a whole magazine of antihysteric medicines were, in different forms, externally and internally applied.

Accordingly, Oliva, hearing the dogs bark, looked out, and, seeing Beausire returning with two strangers, did not come to meet him as usual.

Accordingly abandoning it as a route, I cautiously moved the bedstead against it to hamper any attack which might be made on it later from the next room.

Accordingly your path was here beguiled with the warbling of a thousand birds, the full-toned blackbird, the mellow thrush, and the pensive nightingale.

Accordingly, that every afternoon, Angela, accompanied by Pigott, started off for Rewtham House, where Lady Bellamy still lived, or rather existed.

Accordingly, Arnault and Torquil found themselves obliged to affect amusement at the ongoing byplay of sycophance and bluster between Robert de Sautre and Brian de Jay.

To the tent we went accordingly, to find a simple but bounteous feast prepared, of which we partook, helping each other to food, as is, or was, the custom with new-wedded folk.

Accordingly, two pots of seedling Phalaris and one pot of seedling Brassica were exposed for 8 h.

And accordingly the next morning, after a certain amount of Bromo and black coffee, I asked around the campus and found out that Greco had a place of his own not far from the campus.

A bill was accordingly brought in, importing, that interest after the rate of three per cent, should be allowed upon every debenture, for the bounty on the exportation of com, payable by the receiver-general or cashier of the customs, until the principal could be discharged out of such customs or duties as are appropriated for the payment of this bounty.