Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • pronoun Whatever one or ones.
  • adjective Being any one or any number of a group.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Whether one or the other; no matter which.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • preposition Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • determiner Any one or a number of a group.
  • pronoun Any one or a number of a group.

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Examples

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  • Ship them back whichever is cheapest, don't worry about the change, use it to help cover shipping costs for some of the other guys.

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  • Tanya pleads, in whichever bar, office, restaurant or sunbed saloon she's stalked him to, chucking him her trademark satanic glare, turning on a six-inch Roberto Cavalli heel and stropping off.

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  • Ship them back whichever is cheapest, don't worry about the change, use it to help cover shipping costs for some of the other guys.

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  • It looks like you can choose only between the first paragraph or the first 255 characters, whichever is shorter.

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  • Senate bill: Those without insurance would pay either $750 per year per person up to $2,250 per family or two percent of household income, whichever is greater.

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  • Regardless of what I think of their take on Christianity and their politics, I can only wish them peace and healing in whichever direction Josie leads them in. datingjesus

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