indirectly

indirect | American Dictionary

indirect
adjective
us/ˌɪn·dəˈrekt, ˌɪn·dɑɪ-/

indirectadjective (ADDITIONAL)

happening in addition to an intended result:
Several other people were hurt as an indirect result of his carelessness.

indirectadjective (NOT STRAIGHT)

not following a straight line, or not connected in a simple way:
an indirect route
Ransom thought the best approach in defending truth is the indirect one.

indirect | Business English

indirect
adjective
uk /ˌɪndɪˈrekt/us
not done or communicated in a direct way:
We decided to take an indirect approach to tackling the problem of absenteeism.
He made only an indirect reference to what had happened at the meeting.
happening in addition to an intended result, often in a way that is complicated or not obvious:
This is the indirect effect of a bad business climate that discourages companies from expanding here.
Incentives can pay for themselves through jobs and indirect benefits to the local economy.
Here the deregulation affected the environment, but in a more indirect way.

indirectly

adverb/ˌɪndɪˈrektli/
Bosses were indirectly blamed for a stressful environment.

Examples of indirect

indirect
Such expressions can have a directive force, and then bear a similarity to indirect speech acts.
Hence, there was only an indirect effect of producing sentences at 2 ; 0 on inflectional skills three years later (0.51r0.35=0.18).
Plausible alternatives to these constraints include : conservatism, item-based learning, indirect negative evidence, competition, cue construction, and monitoring.
Indirect costs made up 82 % of this total.
In both countries the influence of the human rights groups over the terms of transition was more indirect than direct.
The political operations of traffickers and their allies go well beyond indirect links with politicians.
In this case, the role of modality is indirect.
Thus, the contributions of older people to households' access to labour markets may be indirect as well as direct.
Overall, however, there was little evidence of indirect ageism, particularly in relation to intervention decisions.
The other channel through which the theory of minima naturalia developed was indirect.
The relative effectiveness and degree of harmonisation of direct versus indirect elder-care policies is an unstudied issue.
Their number can be assessed on the basis of the extant translations and the indirect tradition.
I did not, however, find men trading off direct for indirect care (provisioning).
In its ill-resolved form, internalization can accommodate such diverse approaches as indirect and direct theories of visual perception.
In investigations of the meta-level process per se, the painstaking avoidance of subtle cueing may be less relevant, and an indirect metacognition paradigm suitable.
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