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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
whereby
adverb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The mall created a frequent-shopper plan whereby customers earn discounts.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A deed of transfer was executed on 18 October, whereby the developers transferred the land in question to the Prudential.
▪ As costs rise, there are several schemes whereby you can pay now and die later, but not the reverse.
▪ Consent, which lies at the root of self-determination, should be the conceptual mechanism whereby the right is guaranteed and safeguarded.
▪ Gradually, however, Paul's position becomes the only one whereby sense can be made of the situation.
▪ How can anyone dream up a handicap system whereby my handicap can go up because somebody else scored a net 65?
▪ Sir C: I believe you speak of the practice whereby the political inclination of a parish is physically manipulated.
▪ There should be a quidproquo arrangement whereby we all cooperate.
▪ This allows for the entries to be made by machine accounting whereby several operations can be carried out at the same time.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Whereby

Whereby \Where*by"\, adv.

  1. By which; -- used relatively. ``You take my life when you take the means whereby I life.''
    --Shak.

  2. By what; how; -- used interrogatively.

    Whereby shall I know this?
    --Luke i. 18.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
whereby

c.1200, from where + by.

Wiktionary
whereby

adv. 1 (context interrogative obsolete English) By what, in which direction; how. 2 By which. 3 (context nonstandard English) Where, wherein, in which.

WordNet
whereby
  1. adv. as a result of which

  2. by or through which; "the means whereby we achieved our goal"

Usage examples of "whereby".

West Virginia statute whereby that State sought to require that a preference be accorded local consumers of gas produced within the State.

Was it because the people themselves, through their individual accumulative system, created conditions whereby only the most abject and debased mortals could survive?

Our Apostleship requires, that the Catholic faith should especially in this Our day increase and flourish everywhere, and that all heretical depravity should be driven far from the frontiers and bournes of the Faithful, We very gladly proclaim and even restate those particular means and methods whereby Our pious desire may obtain its wished effect, since when all errors are uprooted by Our diligent avocation as by the hoe of a provident husbandman, a zeal for, and the regular observance of, Our holy Faith will be all the more strongly impressed upon the hearts of the faithful.

Fourthly: what shall be said of the apotheosis of their celebrated heroes and emperors by the Greeks and Romans, whereby these were elevated to the dignity of deities, and seats were assigned them in heaven?

The reference in the last clause is to the decrees of the Senate whereby apotheosis was conferred on various persons, placing them among the gods.

Finally, the contention has been made that in stressing the separate identities of a corporation and its stockholders, the Court overlooked the fact that when a surplus has been accumulated, the stockholders are thereby enriched, and that a stock dividend may therefore be appropriately viewed simply as a device whereby the corporation reinvests money earned in their behalf.

The incarnate Son of God is the common Saviour of all, not by a generic or specific community, such as is attributed to the nature separated from the individuals, but by a community of cause, whereby the incarnate Son of God is the universal cause of human salvation.

Nevertheless action is attributed to the nature as to that whereby the person or hypostasis acts.

And that, at the time, you completed a transaction with this Osborne Blatch, whereby you got the fuel you needed to leave the planet, while Blatch obtained the set of pictures that were later used as illustrations in that textbook.

An agreement was struck between them whereby Ikey would put up the capital for the brothel for which he would receive seventy percent and Mary thirty percent after the deduction of running expenses.

The Missouri Compromise, made in 1820 upon the occasion of the admission of Missouri into the Union as a slave State, whereby, in consideration of such admission, slavery was forever excluded from the Northwest Territory, was ruthlessly repealed in 1854, by a Congress elected in the interests of the slave power, the intent being to force slavery into that vast territory which had so long been dedicated to freedom.

On November 21 Clement addressed a brief to his sculptor, whereby Buonarroti was ordered, under pain of excommunication, to lay aside all work, except what was strictly necessary for the Medician monuments, and to take better care of his health.

States had been troubled by divers ill-intentioned persons pretending to have received revelations from another World, and professing to produce demonstrations whereby they had instigated to frenzy both themselves and others, it had been for this cause unanimously resolved by the Grand Council that on the first day of each millenary, special injunctions be sent to the Prefects in the several districts of Flatland, to make strict search for such misguided persons, and without formality of mathematical examination, to destroy all such as were Isosceles of any degree, to scourge and imprison any regular Triangle, to cause any Square or Pentagon to be sent to the district Asylum, and to arrest any one of higher rank, sending him straightway to the Capital to be examined and judged by the Council.

Townes that her Maiestie willed, and according to her Soueraigne auctoritie in her Dominions, commanded that they shoulde forbeare from thenceforth, from the beginning of the moneth of Ianuarie last past from carying of corne, and generally of all prouision of warre, cables, mastes, and like marchandise into Spaine and Portingall, whereby the enemie of her Kingdome might be the better furnished, vnder the paine of losse both of ships and goods, to be inflicted vpon such, as should violate this her princely commandement.

Later, under the name of Madame de Morens, she opened a chocolate shop with David Chaillou whereby she made a great deal of money which she invested shrewdly and became extremely rich, and friendly with literary Parisian society.