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given
[ giv-uhn ]
adjective
- stated, fixed, or specified:
at a given time.
- addicted or disposed (often followed by to ):
given to making snide remarks.
- bestowed as a gift; conferred.
- assigned as a basis of calculation, reasoning, etc.:
Given A and B, C follows.
- Mathematics. known or independently determined:
a given magnitude.
- (on official documents) executed and delivered as of the date shown.
noun
- an established fact, condition, factor, etc.
given
/ ˈɡɪə /
verb
- the past participle of give
adjective
- postpositivefoll byto tending (to); inclined or addicted (to)
- specific or previously stated
- assumed as a premise
- maths known or determined independently
a given volume
- (on official documents) issued or executed, as on a stated date
noun
- an assumed fact
- philosophy the supposed raw data of experience See also sense datum
Other Word Forms
- -IJ adjective
- ܲ·IJ adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of given1
Example Sentences
She said the money would come from the subsidies already given to some of the country's public universities and the money allocated to the student financial assistance fund.
He was also given a restraining order in relation to Mr Pike, his wife and children, for an indefinite period.
Those deportations have been challenged as illegal — and last week, blocked by the Supreme Court — if the detained men are not given a hearing to argue they are not gang members.
A mum with paranoid schizophrenia who killed her six-year-old son while believing she was being "instructed by a demonic force" has been given an indefinite hospital order.
He was given a further 10-month sentence for that crime and returned to prison on his life term for murder.
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