Meanings
- regarding, concerning
As regards too our Indian possessions, the idea of any thing being feared from Russia in that quarter, at however distant a period, is treated by the politicians of the day as an idle mockery...
1833, James Conolly, Remarks on the Foreign Policy in England, as regards Portugal and Greece, section 351 more example
We were encouraged to continue this work when, in a comparison among the strategies studied within the framework of MIME as regards costs, user independence, linguistic accuracy, and inclusion, we found that some of the labels seemed to fit for English as a lingua franca, but not for Esperanto and could therefore not be verified as characteristics of a lingua franca as such.
2022, Sabine Fiedler, Cyril Robert Brosch, “A note to the reader”, in Esperanto – Lingua Franca and Language Community, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →DOI, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, page xixSynonyms: with respect to
Synonyms & antonyms
prepositionregarding, concerning
Translations
Arabic أَمَّا
- أَمَّا (ʔammā)regarding
Chinese Mandarin 關於 /关于
- 關於 /关于 (guānyú)regarding
Dutch betreffende, met betrekking tot
- betreffenderegarding
- met betrekking totregarding
Estonian mis puudutab
- mis puudutabregarding
Finnish osalta
- osaltaregarding
French quant à, en ce qui concerne
- quant àregarding
- en ce qui concerneregarding
German in Bezug auf, bezüglich
- in Bezug aufregarding
- bezüglichregarding
- betreffendregarding
Hungarian ami …-t illet/illeti
- ami …-t illet/illetiregarding
Irish i dtaca le
- i dtaca leregarding
Italian per quanto riguarda
- per quanto riguardaregarding
Portuguese quanto a
- quanto aregarding
Romanian cu referire la, cu privire la
- cu referire laregarding
- cu privire laregarding
- în ceea ce priveșteregarding
Russian что каса́ется, относи́тельно
- что каса́ется (što kasájetsja)regarding
- относи́тельно (otnosítelʹno)regarding
- каса́тельно (kasátelʹno)regarding
Spanish en cuanto a, en lo tocante a
- en cuanto aregarding
- en lo tocante aregarding
Cite this entry
as regards. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/as%20regards
“as regards.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/as%20regards. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “as regards,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/as%20regards.
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