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We have spotted FOR (3 Letters) a total of 166 times in our database. Below you may see the clues associated with FOR and also when and where was it last seen:

Definition

In the most general sense, indicating that in consideration of, in view of, or with reference to, which anything is done or takes place.
Indicating the antecedent cause or occasion of an action; the motive or inducement accompanying and prompting to an act or state; the reason of anything; that on account of which a thing is or is done.
Indicating the remoter and indirect object of an act; the end or final cause with reference to which anything is, acts, serves, or is done.
Indicating that in favor of which, or in promoting which, anything is, or is done; hence, in behalf of; in favor of; on the side of; -- opposed to against.
Indicating that toward which the action of anything is directed, or the point toward which motion is made; /ntending to go to.
Indicating that on place of or instead of which anything acts or serves, or that to which a substitute, an equivalent, a compensation, or the like, is offered or made; instead of, or place of.
Indicating that in the character of or as being which anything is regarded or treated; to be, or as being.
Indicating that instead of which something else controls in the performing of an action, or that in spite of which anything is done, occurs, or is; hence, equivalent to notwithstanding, in spite of; -- generally followed by all, aught, anything, etc.
Indicating the space or time through which an action or state extends; hence, during; in or through the space or time of.
Indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of which, anything is done.
Because; by reason that; for that; indicating, in Old English, the reason of anything.
Since; because; introducing a reason of something before advanced, a cause, motive, explanation, justification, or the like, of an action related or a statement made. It is logically nearly equivalent to since, or because, but connects less closely, and is sometimes used as a very general introduction to something suggested by what has gone before.
One who takes, or that which is said on, the affrimative side; that which is said in favor of some one or something; -- the antithesis of against, and commonly used in connection with it.

Referring crossword puzzle clues

Usage among publishers:

  • Newsday: Apr 24, 2024
  • Wall Street Journal: Apr 3, 2024
  • USA Today: Feb 20, 2024
  • Eugene Sheffer: Feb 13, 2024
  • USA Today: Jan 27, 2024
  • USA Today: Dec 28, 2023
  • Thomas Joseph: Dec 20, 2023
  • Thomas Joseph: Dec 18, 2023
  • USA Today: Dec 1, 2023
  • Eugene Sheffer: Nov 28, 2023
  • Eugene Sheffer: Oct 31, 2023
  • Thomas Joseph: Oct 26, 2023
  • Newsday: Oct 18, 2023
  • Wall Street Journal: Sep 15, 2023
  • Thomas Joseph: Aug 7, 2023
  • Thomas Joseph: Jul 31, 2023