Overall of a lesser scope and scale
"Overall the Marseilles-Izmir trading relationship survived. Ultimately, this may have been the best result for French imports from Izmir, because it meant that the industrial regions of north-western France would not be competitively enough linked to the western Anatolian market. This was at least in part due to reluctance by the trading networks of Marseilles to open up and establish more competitive maritime routes to link other regions of France with Izmir. Instead, these networks appeared to have retained their privileged place within a trading relationship, which was overall of a lesser scope and scale, than previously." (Ebru Boyar and Kate Fleet (eds), Making a Living in Ottoman Anatolia)
What does the emphasized "overall" mean in this context?
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alibey1917 What does the emphasized "overall" mean in this context? Yeah, they seem to like the word. Your excerpt begins with it, just as puzzlingly.
- alibey1917 What does the emphasized "overall" mean in this context?
- Yeah, they seem to like the word.
- Your excerpt begins with it, just as puzzlingly.
- They use it loosely as a weasel word.
- They didn't want to categorically come right out and declare that the trading relationship was smaller, so they tossed in "overall" to weaken the statement.
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alibey1917What does the emphasized "overall" mean in this context?
Yeah, they seem to like the word. Your excerpt begins with it, just as puzzlingly. They use it loosely as a weasel word. They didn't want to categorically come right out and declare that the trading relationship was smaller, so they tossed in "overall" to weaken the statement. It might be th
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