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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
therefore
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
need
▪ The quality of relationships the Bible speaks of in terms of the home environment is learned and therefore needs to be practised.
▪ Maybe you are heading toward retirement and therefore need investments that can provide you with a steady income.
▪ Students will therefore need courses that will equip them for observing, collecting and analysing linguistic data.
▪ Great care therefore needs to be taken over the completion of documents.
▪ I shall therefore need to weigh up very carefully both the costs and benefits of introducing such a system.
▪ In order to understand them better we therefore need to examine their influence; and this process of investigation also leads to elaboration.
▪ A group of instructions is therefore needed to perform a suitable range of manipulations on the index register or registers.
▪ The builder's surveyor will therefore need to make the necessary adjustments for cost value reconciliation purposes.
seem
▪ The stage therefore seems set for an explosion of counselling.
▪ It therefore seems that he ascribes this voice to a visually familiar face.
▪ It seems therefore that implanted metal despite a potential to induce fibrosis or inflammation, has not been responsible for malignancy.
▪ A continuation of the softly, softly approach, raising rates in quarter-point increments, therefore seems appropriate.
▪ Traditionally looked upon as the capital of the former Visigothic kingdom of Aquitaine it seemed therefore to belong to Aquitaine.
▪ It might seem therefore that my more recent work had completely undone the results of my earlier work on singularities.
▪ It therefore seems to be necessary to look carefully at the contract terms before deciding whether or not there is redundancy.
▪ Elevated muscarinic receptor seemed therefore to be associated with the early phases of memory formation.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ It was clear Lucy was unhappy. Therefore, it comes as no surprise she has decided to resign.
▪ Jewish weddings are both religious and civil. Therefore two official applications for marriage are necessary.
▪ The building work is taking quite a long time, and therefore costing us money.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Do check therefore that you use fabric that will not shrink.
▪ Heads should therefore still be taking a key leadership role.
▪ The exclusion is therefore highly technical.
▪ We therefore recommend the abolition of this rule.
▪ You may therefore read the criteria and see if your answer matches them.
▪ You might think, therefore, that feminists could dismiss it with relief as a non-issue.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Therefore

Therefore \There"fore\, conj. & adv. [OE. therfore. See There, and Fore, adv., For, and cf. Therefor.]

  1. For that or this reason, referring to something previously stated; for that.

    I have married a wife, and therefore I can not come.
    --Luke xiv. 20.

    Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have therefore?
    --Matt. xix. 27.

  2. Consequently; by consequence.

    He blushes; therefore he is guilty.
    --Spectator.

    Syn: See Then.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
therefore

Old English þærfore; from there + fore, Old English and Middle English collateral form of for. Since c.1800, therefor has been used in sense of "for that, by reason of that;" and therefore in sense of "in consequence of that." Similar formation in Dutch daarfoor, German dafür, Danish derfor.

Wiktionary
therefore

adv. 1 (context conjunctive English) For that or this purpose, referring to something previously stated. 2 (context conjunctive English) consequently, by or in consequence of that or this cause; referring to something previously stated.

WordNet
therefore
  1. adv. (used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result; "therefore X must be true"; "the eggs were fresh and hence satisfactory"; "we were young and thence optimistic"; "it is late and thus we must go"; "the witness is biased and so cannot be trusted" [syn: hence, thence, thus]

  2. as a consequence; "he had good reason to be grateful for the opportunities which they had made available to him and which consequently led to the good position he now held" [syn: consequently]

Usage examples of "therefore".

Therefore, Synnovea, you may ask the Countess Andreyevna if she will accommodate your new marital status as a personal favor to me.

He therefore rejoiced in the hope of seeing his own son accommodated with such a faithful attendant, in the person of young Fathom, on whom he resolved to bestow the same education he had planned for the other, though conveyed in such a manner as should be suitable to the sphere in which he was ordained to move.

He was therefore accommodated with a second-hand suit and another shirt, and at once listed under the banners of Count Fathom, who spent the whole afternoon in giving him proper instructions for the regulation of his conduct.

It behooves, therefore, the American builder to examine well his premises, to ascertain the actual requirements of his farm or plantation, in convenience and accommodation, and build only to such extent, and at such cost as shall not impoverish his means, nor cause him future disquietude.

Therefore she was not surprised when one day Mr Holohan came to her and proposed that her daughter should be the accompanist at a series of four grand concerts which his Society was going to give in the Ancient Concert Rooms.

It is therefore clear that she was not bound to fulfil that precept, but fulfilled the observance of purification of her own accord, as stated above.

And therefore of their own accord, and against the will of their parents, they can receive Baptism, just as they can contract marriage.

If, therefore, he were not allowed to think in accord with the love in his will, which is hereditarily implanted in him, that love would remain shut in and never be seen by him.

Greatness therefore summon Tanca to your judgment-seat, and, after hearing all parties, pronounce a just judgment and one accordant to your character.

Therefore I can see no difficulty, under changing conditions of life, in natural selection accumulating slight modifications of instinct to any extent, in any useful direction.

They do not use accumulators, and therefore their dissipation is limited to their maximum reception, which is about seventy thousand kilofranks.

Let us therefore not attempt to dislodge the Greek astronomer from his pedestal as the discoverer of precession unless we can find a significantly more accurate value recorded in a significantly more ancient source.

My aunt, by his advice, has therefore written the letter which you will find at your house.

Therefore, before they would have recourse to extremities, they thought it advisable to consult the senate a second time.

I have been moved by considerations by me deemed sufficient to withhold my authority for affixing the said seal: Now, therefore, be it known that I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do hereby authorize the Secretary of State to cancel my signature to the instrument aforesaid.