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Tuongvan Posted 18 years ago
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00My dictionary says "as of" means"starting from a particular time or date " , but what does "as of" mean in the sentence below ?Can it be replaced by "by" in this situation ? I would appreciate it very much if you could help me understand the meaning of " as of" here. 02br
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00A survey done by the 00American Research Group00 showed that 01b00as of02b00 April 2008, 22% of Americans approved of President Bush's effect on the economy. 02br
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1i 00It has been snowing hard since yesterday morning. 02i 02br 02br 00I trust you see the difference. Your dictionary quote only describes the second case.

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  • 02i 02br 02br 00I trust you see the difference.
  • Your dictionary quote only describes the second case.
  • Your Bush story is an example of the first case.
  • 02br 02br 00Both uses are common.
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1i00It has been snowing hard since yesterday morning. As of midnight last night, twenty-five inches of snow had accumulated.02i02br
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01i00As of July 1st, California drivers will no longer be allowed to use hand held cell phones.02i02br
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00I trust you see the difference. Your dictionary quote only describes the second
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0as of: at/on the date of0-
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01cite10Tuongvan12cite10I would appreciate it very much if you could help me understand the meaning of " as of" here. 12blockquote
10 It's basically the same as your dictionary says. You might substitute "on", but not "by".02br
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1font00My dictionary says "as of" means"starting from a particular time or date "02font02br
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00Looking through Google for examples similar to your Bush approval statistics, I came upon a likely hit:02br
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01i00Iraq War Results and Statistics as of May 28, 200802i02br
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0After spending a few hours with this, I feel confident the original poster's dictionary definition of "as of" cannot be correct. Having found no explanation other than my own which describes two different uses, I'm now convinced the MW Unabridged definition is the correct one, and that words like "beginning" and "starting" can have no place in a general definition of the expression.02br
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0I don't think that the original quoted sentence came from the dictionary. My impression is that someone has used 'as of' by mistake when they should have used 'as at' (stating a condition/result at a specific time)0-
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0Here's my take.02br
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00"As of" can certainly mean "starting from", as in the sentence 01i00As of July 20 we will no longer accept cheques.02i02br
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00But it's easy to find examples where it merely means "at" or "on". This, from the01i00 Financial Times02i00, is just one of innumerable examples I could have
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01cite10Mr Wordy12cite10I have never considered this use to be incorrect, and if it is incorrect then an awful lot of people are using the phrase wrongly.12blockquote
10 Me neither. I agree.02br
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0I agree too, and have for all of my adult life, except for three or four hours last night, when I understood that the definition from the questioner's dictionary was the correct one. When I found that MW Unabridged defined the expression as "at or on (a specific time or date)," with nothing about "starting at" and nothing about a second usage, I knew the questioner's dictionary was wrong.02
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0Hi tuongvan,02br
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00"As of" here means " up to ,on /at or from a specified time "02br
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00"By" means "no later than; at or before a specified time02br
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00As of nex week all the airline's fares will be going up(As of next week =as from next week =from next week on )02br
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00As of this year the country
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