though
US /ðoʊ/
conjunction, adverb Foundation · A2 Đời sống hằng ngày
Definition
(postpositive) however
Tested in TOEIC business and workplace contexts.
Examples
Though the weather was bad, most guests arrived on time.
Collocations
- Easy even though it was rainingto even though it was raining, meaning to make level or straight
- Medium finished on time, though over budgetto finished on time, though over budget, meaning to come or bring to a finish or an end
- Hard difficult though the restructuring negotiations proved to bedescribing difficult though the restructuring negotiations proved to be (not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure)
- Very Hard soldiering on as though nothing untoward had transpiredto soldiering on as though nothing untoward had transpired, meaning to serve as a soldier in the military
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