Definition of "ways" []

• Informal Variant of way. See Usage Note at way. (noun)

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• "-- _Study carefully the Definitions and the Remark above, and then compose sentences in which a noun or a pronoun shall be put in the nominative case in four ways; in the objective in five ways; in the possessive in two ways_."
• "I would begin now to advise you to drop all correspondence with William; but, as I said before, as I cannot enter into your feelings and views of things, _your ways not being my ways_, why should I tell you what I would do in your situation?"
• "The International Monetary Fund took an unusual step this week in officially sanctioning capital control efforts such as Brazil's as short term ways to offset overseas currency pressure."