Какво означава less на английски?

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less Значение & определение

0 a smaller amount (of), or to a smaller degree:
- We must try to spend less money.
- Exercise more and eat less.
- I eat less chocolate and fewer biscuits than I used to.
- Getting out of bed in summer is less difficult than in winter.
- I think he was less than honest with me.
- He's less and less able to look after himself.
1 → minus :
- The total is 30 dollars, less the five dollars deposit that you paid.
2 used to form adjectives meaning "without (the thing mentioned)":
- meaningless
- friendless
3 a smaller amount of something, to a smaller degree, or not as much; comparative oflittle :
- We’ve got to spend less money.
- It was less than a mile to the nearest gas station.
- She had less reason to complain than I.
- Skiing conditions this year are less than ideal (= not good).
- There were no less than (= as many as) a thousand people buying tickets.
4 minus ; after subtracting:
- $30, less the discount of 15%, is $25.50.
5 after subtracting a particular number or amount:
- The account will pay at least base rate less 0.25% until 31 March next year.

The buses run less frequently on Sundays.
The survey reveals that two-thirds of married women earn less than their husbands.
The students accomplished the task in less than ten minutes.
Do you pay less tax if you're self-employed?
If you eat three good meals a day, you're less likely to snack on biscuits and crisps.
Students at a lower level of proficiency benefited from the first approach, whereas students at a higher level did so to a lesser extent.
One argument sometimes raised against it is that it would lead to plea-bargaining, and thus to offenders escaping with lesser convictions and lesser sentences.
Such theories still move us from lesser to greater conditions of intelligibility.