As
What does "as" mean here?
"Every month, the head of passenger service at Zippy asks her secretary to contact the sales manager's secretary at Mushy to order 100,000 boxes of rubber chicken. Traditionally, the orders have gone via the post office. However, as the postal service deteriorates, at some point the two secretaries decide to abandon it and communicate by FAX. They can do this without bothering their bosses, since their protocol deals with the physical transmission of the orders, not their contents."
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Good question. I was unable to find this use precisely defined anywhere, including in the OED , but you can think of it as a combination of two, "during the time that" and "since".
- Good question.
- I was unable to find this use precisely defined anywhere, including in the OED , but you can think of it as a combination of two, "during the time that" and "since".
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Good question. I was unable to find this use precisely defined anywhere, including in the OED, but you can think of it as a combination of two, "during the time that" and "since".
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