indirect

1. Not direct

   While not mentioning any of their competitors by name, the CEO made some indirect statements that they were acting immorally.

   Se asked him some indirect questions to ascertain whether he was single.

   not as a direct effect or consequence

2. Not direct:

   Not of obvious or immediate cause, but as a secondary result.

   The direct result of socialising every day in the bars may be happiness and meeting new people, but the indirect results could be addiction, or even poverty.

3. Not focused straight at the target or subject; whose true aim appears secondary or obscure.

4. Not involving the quickest, shortest, or most convenient path; oblique.

   In an effort to beat the traffic jams, they opted to take an indirect route to their destination.

5. Employing argument by contradiction; making use the law of the excluded middle; arguing via the contrapositive.

6. Figuratively

7. Figuratively

   (архаичное)Not straightforward, fair, or honest; corrupt.

1. Taxes consist of direct taxes and indirect ones.

   Налоги делятся на прямые и непрямые.

   deZu den Steuern gehören direkte wie indirekte Steuern.

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2. You need to complete the exercise using indirect speech.

   Вы должны выполнить упражнение, используя косвенную речь.

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3. A smile is an indirect hug.

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4. New indirect taxes were imposed on spirits.

   deSpirituosen wurden mit neuen indirekten Steuern belegt.

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5. The dative case marks an indirect object.

   ukДавальний відмінок позначає непрямий додаток.

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