[ˌɪndʌɪˈrɛkt], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- not directly caused by or resulting from something
(e.g: full employment would have an indirect effect on wage levels)

- (of a route) not straight; not following the shortest way
(e.g: he took a careful, indirect route home from his dockside rendezvous)

- avoiding direct mention or exposition of a subject
(e.g: an indirect attack on the Archbishop)


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Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘not in full grammatical concord’): from medieval Latin indirectus, from in- ‘not’ + directus (see direct)