versus

CEFRB2

/ˈvɜːsəs/

preposition

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01
preposition
Against or compared with someone or something.
02
preposition
Extra detail
Bringing a legal action against, as used in the title of a court case in which the first party indicates the plaintiff (or appellant or the like), and the second indicates the defendant (or respondent or the like).

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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Your opponents are an illusion. There are no distinct entities of "us" versus "them."
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans.
It is the Packers versus the Steelers in the Super Bowl.

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In polling by the Pew Research Center in November 2008, fully half the respondents thought the two parties would cooperate more in the coming year, versus only 36 percent who thought the climate would grow more adversarial.
2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times
If, for example, we select random people entering a workout gym, versus if we pick random people entering a hospital, we will get very different samples.
2005, Robert E. Weiss, Modeling Longitudinal Data, Springer, →ISBN, page 104

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From Middle English versus, borrowed from Latin versus (“facing”), past participle of vertere (“to turn, change, overthrow, destroy”).