EGAVE

nexus

About 1.46 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A form or state of connection.
  2. noun The relationship between a vendor and a jurisdiction for the purpose of taxation, established for example by the vendor operating a physical store in that jurisdiction.
  3. noun A connected group; a network, a web.
  4. noun A centre or focus of something.
  5. noun In the work of the Danish linguist Otto Jespersen (1860–1943): a group of words expressing two concepts in one unit (such as a clause or sentence).
  6. noun A person who had contracted a nexum or obligation of such a kind that, if they failed to pay, their creditor could compel them to work as a servant until the debt was paid; an indentured servant.

Similar words

link connection connexion interrelationship interdependence relation interdependent relationship linkage interface

Often followed by

of between in is with and for to that

Word family

nexi nexuses

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