indirect

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/ˌɪn.daɪˈɹɛkt/

adjective

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adjective
Not done or expressed in a direct way.
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adjective
Extra detail
Not direct:, Not of obvious or immediate cause, but as a secondary result.

Examples

New indirect taxes were imposed on spirits.
Taxes consist of direct taxes and indirect ones.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 1

Also pronounced

/ˌɪn.dɪˈɹekt/
/ˌɪn.dɪˈɹɛkt/

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adjective

Extra meanings

Not direct
Not of obvious or immediate cause, but as a secondary result.
Not focused straight at the target or subject; whose true aim appears secondary or obscure.

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Se asked him some indirect questions to ascertain whether he was single.
While not mentioning any of their competitors by name, the CEO made some indirect statements that they were acting immorally.
The indirect effects of the war

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Did you, by indirect, and forced courſes / Subdue, and poyſon this tong Maides affections? / Or came it by requeſt, and ſuch faire queſtion / As ſoule, to ſoule affordeth?
c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), L...
Indirect messages permit communicative contacts when, without them, the alternatives would be total inhibition, silence, and solitude on the one hand, or, on the other, communicative behavior that is direct, offensive, and hence forbidden. This is a painful choice. In actual practice, neither alternative is likely to result in the gratification of personal or sexual needs. In this dilemma, indirect communications provide a useful compromise. As an early move in the dating game, the young man might invite the young woman to dinner or to the movies.
1974, Thomas S. Szasz, M.D., chapter 8, in The Myth of Mental Illness, →ISBN, pages 139–140
In the case of a piece of equipment such as a pump, the supplier's costs may be broken down into the directs of labour, material, and component costs on the one hand, and the indirects of customized engineering, sales, factory overheads, and order management costs on the other.
2002, Peter Watermeyer, Handbook for Process Plant Project Engineers
Indirect radiators are seldom installed except for rooms on the first or second floors; and in the former case the duct, D, is very short, and in the latter it is usually from 12 to 16 feet long. It should be stated in this connection that indirects of large size should be spread out as much as possible so as to give a large area against the current of air.
1902, William S. Monroe, “Chapter 4”, in Steam Heating and Ventilation
The X operations access the data fields by indirecting through the _rep pointer.
1997, Cay S. Horstmann, Practical Object-Oriented Development in C++ and Java, page 385

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Origin

adjective

From Middle French indirect, from Late Latin indirectus (“not direct”).

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adjective

She took an blank route to avoid the traffic jam on the highway.