"much to be said" meaning in English

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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "There is much to be said for a policy of caution."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 August 14, Simon Jenkins, The Guardian",
          "text": "The British empire had much to be said for it, but it is over – dead, deceased, struck off, no more.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Gillian Brock, “The new nationalisms”, in Monist, volume 82, number 3, page 367",
          "text": "Why not think of oneself as simply thrown together with fellow citizens or conationals in the same sort of random way as a group of people might be thrown together in a life-boat? There is much to be said in favor of such a story.",
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        "Used to assert the defensibility or advisability of what follows."
      ],
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      "synonyms": [
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          "word": "a lot to be said"
        },
        {
          "word": "something to be said"
        }
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "assertion",
          "word": "要說的有很多"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "yào shuō de yǒu hěnduō",
          "sense": "assertion",
          "word": "要说的有很多"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "assertion",
          "word": "olla tärkeää"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "assertion",
          "word": "sok minden szól"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "note": "followed by mellett, i.e., for a given point",
          "sense": "assertion",
          "word": "nyomós érvek szólnak"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "assertion",
          "word": "wiele powiedzieć"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "assertion",
          "word": "wiele do powiedzenia"
        }
      ]
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  ],
  "word": "much to be said"
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        {
          "text": "There is much to be said for a policy of caution."
        },
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          "text": "The British empire had much to be said for it, but it is over – dead, deceased, struck off, no more.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Gillian Brock, “The new nationalisms”, in Monist, volume 82, number 3, page 367",
          "text": "Why not think of oneself as simply thrown together with fellow citizens or conationals in the same sort of random way as a group of people might be thrown together in a life-boat? There is much to be said in favor of such a story.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Used to assert the defensibility or advisability of what follows."
      ]
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "a lot to be said"
    },
    {
      "word": "something to be said"
    }
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "assertion",
      "word": "要說的有很多"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yào shuō de yǒu hěnduō",
      "sense": "assertion",
      "word": "要说的有很多"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "assertion",
      "word": "olla tärkeää"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "assertion",
      "word": "sok minden szól"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "note": "followed by mellett, i.e., for a given point",
      "sense": "assertion",
      "word": "nyomós érvek szólnak"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "assertion",
      "word": "wiele powiedzieć"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "assertion",
      "word": "wiele do powiedzenia"
    }
  ],
  "word": "much to be said"
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