word for word
C2 using exactly the same words:
She listened to everything I said and repeated it word for word to her mum.
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word-for-word
If you translate speech or writing word for word, you change one word at a time in the same order rather than in phrases or other larger units of meaning.
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Accurate and exact
- accuracy
- accurate
- aright
- authoritative
- bang
- be bang on idiom
- exact
- exactly
- in so many words idiom
- infallible
- infallibly
- letter-perfect
- literal
- sharp
- strictly speaking idiom
- technically
- to the day idiom
- to the letter idiom
- truly
- unerring
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