if you will

Meanings

adverb

Please, kindly; used in giving a non-concrete instruction.
But imagine, if you will, a world where these logistical problems were solved.
So to speak, like; used to indicate that a description is not standard.
These are "partial artifacts", if you will: the imaging process has merely amplified flaws that were already present in the original.
1 more example
Today's blackenization, if you will, of the prisons only exacerbates racist proclivities in nonblack Americans to associate black people with wrong.
2001, Mark Lewis Taylor, The Executed God: The Way of the Cross in Lockdown America, Fortress Press, →ISBN, page 28
Synonyms: if you like
Used in conceding a description or choice of terms.
He wasn't a very honest person; a liar, if you will.

adverbSo to speak, like; used to indicate that a description is not standard.

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Danish om du vil, om man vil

German wenn Sie so wollen, wenn du so willst

Italian per così dire

Latin si vis

Polish że tak powiem

Portuguese por assim dizer

Russian если угодно

Spanish por así decirlo, mejor dicho

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