vis-à-vis

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
vis-à-vis /ˌviːzɑːˈviː/

▶preposition

1 in relation to.

2 as compared with; as opposed to.

▶adverb archaic in a position facing a specified or implied subject. ▶noun (pl. same) a person or thing occupying a corresponding position to that of another; a counterpart.

– origin C18: Fr., lit. ‘face to face’, from OFr. vis ‘face’.

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