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Eg.
1abbreviation for
- Egypt.
- Egyptian.
e.g.
2[ ee-jee ]
abbreviation for
- for example; for the sake of example; such as:
Let’s look at some important dates in American history—e.g., July 4, 1776.
I collect the works of many poets (e.g., Dickinson, Frost, Angelou).
e.g.
1abbreviation for
- exempli gratia
eg
2the internet domain name for
- Egypt
Eg.
3abbreviation for
- Egypt(ian)
- Egyptology
e.g.
- An abbreviation meaning “for example.” It is short for the Latin exempli gratia , “for the sake of example.” A list of examples may be preceded by e.g. : “She loved exotic fruit, e.g., mangoes, passion fruit, and papayas.” ( Compare i.e. )
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Origin of Eg.1
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Example Sentences
Many Obama administration sub-Cabinet positions (e.g. Surgeon General) have gone unfilled because of GOP opposition.
E.g., the U.S. Chamber of Commerce spent $136.3 million lobbying in 2012 and $74.7 million in 2013.
Americans get tired of front-runners (see, e.g., Ed Muskie, Ted Kennedy, Gary Hart, and Mario Cuomo).
Yesterday, e.g., I was interviewed on leadership and global crises during the annual ‘Out on Wall Street’ gathering.
Generally uses masculine pronouns (e.g., “he” or “his”) or gender neutral pronouns.
Now, said I, why not give us (if miracles are required) one that nobody could doubt—removing a mountain, e.g.?
Again, modal propositions cannot be reduced to the common form by joining the modality to the predicate, and turning, e.g.
A proposition whose subject is an individual name, even if not a proper name, is singular, e.g.
It is merely an accident when general names are names of classes of real objects: e.g.
Like the functions sine and cosine, the elliptic functions have addition theorems, e.g.
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