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minus English

Learners of English as a second language usually know the word minus once they have reached the level C1 – Advanced. English words by learner level A1 A2 B1 B2 C1 C2

Meaning minus meaning

What does minus mean?

Definitions in simple English

minus Preposition

— You use mathx/math minus mathy/math to show that mathy/math is taken away from mathx/math. Five minus three is two. math(5 - 3 = 2)/math The TV is $299 minus a 10% discount. The margin of error is plus or minus one per cent.

minus Noun

— A minus sign, negative sign, or minus is the symbol "-". It is used in more than one situation:

— before a number, to indicate that it is a negative number.

— in a math problem 3 - 1 = 2 to indicate subtraction.

minus

— adjective (= negative) involving disadvantage or harm minus (or negative) factors

— adjective on the negative side or lower end of a scale minus 5 degrees a grade of B minus

— noun (= subtraction) an arithmetic operation in which the difference between two numbers is calculated the subtraction of three from four leaves one four minus three equals one

Synonyms minus synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as minus?

minus English » English

negative

less

without

subtract

minus sign

subtraction

less than

lacking

except

wound

wanting

tally down

subzero

subtractive

sore

sine

set aside

separate

scourge

sans

remove

plague

negative sign

negative quantity

negative number

negative indication

negation

lesion

laceration

injury

excluding

exclude

eliminate

drawback

deduct

decrement

coastdown

canker

away

Topics minus topics

What do people use minus to talk about?

States Quantity Count

Subtract numbers

• What words are used for subtraction equations?
  minus subtracted from from less

States Quantity More

Less

• What words indicate that something is less than a particular number or amount?
  less than under below lower within minus

States Location Be at a place

Absent

• What words indicate that something or someone is not in a particular place?
  be absent not be here not be around be out not be in be away missing be off not be at not be there absence be gone not present be away nowhere to be found out of sight truant absent without leave AWOL missing in action not show up make yourself scarce minus someone be lacking lose elsewhere somewhere else

Examples minus examples

How do I use minus in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Ten minus two is eight.

The temperature went down to minus ten degrees centigrade last night.

Minus and minus is plus.

The mercury plunged to minus 7 overnight.

How many is nine minus six?

Five minus three is two.

The temperature now is minus ten degrees.

Eight minus four is four.

Movie subtitles

On Earth, methane is a flammable gas, but the temperatures on Titan are so cold, minus 1 80 degrees Celsius, that the methane can form liquid.

I'm afraid this here is one gun your collection's gonna be minus.

Plus one and minus one equal nothing.

You're like a French tragic hero, minus the beard.

Connect the minus to the minus.

Minus eight biscuits!

Six minus seven.

If you touch me, you'll go back minus a lot of parts you value.

If he hadn't, you'd have been minus a master.

I understand we are minus two men this morning.

Our friends are minus a nasty relative.

Gentlemen, the Ducotels are minus another relative.

Let me know when you're minus 10 the pressure.

A quick calculation reveals that minus 40 equals plus 8000!

Minus Miss Porter's fingerprints.

It seemed as though some special kind of justice kept following you through the next years. until at last you were counting your assets with a minus sign. and your friends on one finger.

Have a shore boat at the dock at 1800 minus ten.

When 3 men take off in a rocket and only one comes back in our reckoning that leaves minus 2.

At zero minus one, the general will dispatch his escort for the atomic convoy and then at once proceed by air to his post.

Well, if these guns were loaded, you'd be minus your rudder and one wing.

I'm just gonna have to settle for the fact Josh and I are gonna have an F-minus wedding at an A-plus venue, which means it'll be a C, which everyone knows is actually an F.

He had a hit, went on the razzle-dazzle, and now he's just back where he started, broke and minus a wife.

Come along, old Minus, we'll take a little walk.

Ah, Minus!

I'm so happy to see you, my little Minus!

You see, old Minus?

Minus!

Well, I'm sorry, Mr Kent. I'm afraid this here is one gun your collection's gonna be minus.

Is the fluid of the spinal cord minus now?

Hold on, let's see. 35 minus 10.

Plus 20, plus 19, minus 37. 50,000 liras.

We'll switch on at midnight minus 3.

News and current affairs

What these comparisons show is that markets plus government have done better than markets minus government.

According to the International Monetary Fund, the budget deficit is declining, and the primary surplus (net revenues minus interest payments) is growing.

In East Asia (minus Japan), governments appear to have been doing rather well.

The news from Greece these days has been dominated by the announcement that the government achieved a primary budget surplus (the fiscal balance minus debt service) in 2013.

On my way to Novosibirk airport at 5a.m. on a morning when the temperature read minus 48 Celsius (minus 118 Fahrenheit) I saw a brightly-lit wooden hut.

The change in a country's debt burden reflects the size of its primary budget balance (the balance minus interest payments) as a share of GDP, as well as the difference between its borrowing costs and its GDP growth rate.

Moreover, the US will begin running primary budget surpluses - the fiscal balance minus interest payments on existing debt - by 2015.

If centrist elites do not prove themselves up to the task, those of the far right will gladly fill the vacuum, minus the moderation.