Can I Use Vis-a-Vis?

Can I Use Vis-a-Vis?

Vis-à-Vis Usage
You can use it as an adverb: My friend and I stood vis-à-vis in the crowded bus. You can also use it as an adjective: The vis-à-vis meeting with my boss went well.

How do you use VIS in a sentence?

Two 650 hp Mercury VIS engines gave adequate power. Basil Fawlty's crass remarks vis a vis Poland. The approach minima, even under IFR are 4500 meters vis and 1200 ' cloud base. Thus each participant was engaged in developing his or her negotiation skills vis a vis the other participants.

Can you abbreviate vis a vis?

The business of a technical writer, on the other hand, is to make things as clear as possible, so we avoid “vis-a-vis.” Some writers use “vis-a-vis” as a synonym for “vs.,” which is simply wrong. The abbreviation vs. stands for the Latin versus, meaning “against.”

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