Both Uses of
virtual
in
Hard Times
- He had virtually retired from the wholesale hardware trade before he built Stone Lodge, and was now looking about for a suitable opportunity of making an arithmetical figure in Parliament.†
Chpt 1.3
- The disparity I have mentioned, therefore, almost ceases to be disparity, and (virtually) all but disappears.'†
Chpt 1.15 *
Definition:
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(virtual as in: virtual organization) to almost be something; or to effectively be something without entirely being it in a traditional sense