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Quasi (Latin)

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Something which is not the real thing, but may be accepted in its place; thus a

Quasi contract is not a real contract, but something which may be accepted as a contract, and has the force of one.

Quasi tenant. The tenant of a house sub-let.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Quarter
Quarter-days in England and Ireland:
Quarter Waggoner
Quarters
Quarterdeck
Quartermaster
Quartered
Quarto
Quarto-Decimans
Quashee
Quasi (Latin)
Quasimodo
Quasimodo Sunday
Quassia
Quatorziennes (fourteeners)
Queen
Queen (The White)
Queen Anne is Dead
Queen Anne’s Bounty
Queen Anne’s Style (of architecture)
Queen Consort