if you will

Definitions

1. 1

   Please, kindly

   Please, kindly; used in giving a non-concrete instruction.

   • But imagine, if you will, a world where these logistical problems were solved.
2. 2

   So to speak, like

   So to speak, like; used to indicate that a description is not standard.

   • These are "partial artifacts", if you will: the imaging process has merely amplified flaws that were already present in the original.
   • Today's blackenization, if you will, of the prisons only exacerbates racist proclivities in nonblack Americans to associate black people with wrong.
3. 3

   Used in conceding a description or choice of terms.

   • He wasn't a very honest person; a liar, if you will.

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