regress

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Difficulty LevelIntermediate

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Word FrequencyVery Common

Used frequently in everyday conversation

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noun

1. The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression.

2. The power or liberty of passing back.

3. In property law, the right of a person (such as a lessee) to return to a property.

Synonyms

verb

1. To move backwards to an earlier stage; to devolve.

2. To move from east to west.

3. To perform a regression on an explanatory variable.

"When we regress Y on X, we use the values of variable X to predict those of Y."

Synonyms

≠ Antonyms

advance proceed progress

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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