Definition of "quasi" []

• Having a likeness to something; resembling: a quasi success. (adjective)

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• "The difference is however that people are not randomly assigned to the different treatments; therefore the term quasi-experiment is used and the research is an observational study."
• "That's why I use the term quasi-protected class: homosexuals are gaining increasingly wider state and federal protections, but at the present time those protections are in no way proportional to those of other traditionally-protected groups."
• "MARTIN: Anderson, Obama needs to run what I call a quasi-general election, primary campaign."