1 → minus : --
2 used to form adjectives meaning "without (the thing mentioned)": --
3 a smaller amount of something, to a smaller degree, or not as much; comparative oflittle : --
4 minus ; after subtracting: --
$30, less the discount of 15%, is $25.50.
5 after subtracting a particular number or amount: --
The result is usually a compromise mixture of three disparate goals that satisfies the various stakeholders to a greater or lesser extent.
Sentences that consist of multiple clauses, or coordinated (and to a lesser extent also subordinated) clauses, might contain multiple topics.
Student comments evidenced a high deg ree of task and strateg ic knowledge and, to a lesser deg ree, person knowledge.
Under these conditions, there is a greater chance of detecting taxa that are spurious and a lesser chance of detecting taxa that truly exist.
There is reasonably full evidence for a number of lesser gentry, yeoman and tradesman estates.
On the contrary they are a natural feature of the human condition, present in everyone to a greater or lesser degree.
To a lesser extent material was supplied from the south.
Clearly, as with the existing" subjective" and" departmental" analyses so the clinical analysis of expenditure may be provided in greater or lesser degrees of details.