Meanings
- informalnot comparablelawIn the event that the thing being discussed comes to pass.
We'll talk about appeals if, as and when.
2001, The Man Who Wasn't There, spoken by Freddy Riedenschneider (Tony Shalhoub)2 more examples
1944, Thomas Reed Powell, letter to William O. Douglas, quoted in Melvin I. Urofsky (1989), '"Dear Teacher": The Correspondence of William O. Douglas and Thomas Reed Powell', Law and History Review 7(2), page 364, No one cares about what a judge thinks, if, as and when. All that counts is what he says.
The whole thing, Tyne decided, would make a nice problem to mull over in his old age -- if, as, and when.
1988, Harry Brown, A Walk in the Sun, →ISBN, page 75
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