"or else" meaning in English

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Conjunction

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  1. Otherwise or as an alternative.
    Sense id: en-or_else-en-conj-kZOnw1UR

Phrase

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  1. (idiomatic) No matter what (implies an unspecified threat). Tags: idiomatic Translations (as an alternative): εἰ δὲ μή γε (ei dè mḗ ge) (Ancient Greek), بِطَرِيقَة أُخْرَى (bi-ṭarīqa ʔuḵrā) (Arabic), وَإِلَّا (wa-ʔillā) (Arabic), այլապես (aylapes) (Armenian), թե չէ (tʿe čʿē) (Armenian), əks təqdirdə (Azerbaijani), yoxsa (Azerbaijani), ya da (Azerbaijani), دەنا (dena) (Central Kurdish), 要不然 (yàobùrán) (Chinese Mandarin), 要不 (yàobù) (Chinese Mandarin), 不然 (bùrán) (Chinese Mandarin), 否則 (Chinese Mandarin), 否则 (fǒuzé) (Chinese Mandarin), ellers (Danish), või muidu (Estonian), vastasel juhul (Estonian), tai muuten (Finnish), muutoin (Finnish), sinon (French), თუარადა (tuarada) (Georgian), თორემ (torem) (Georgian), sonst (German), anders (German), andernfalls (German), ειδάλλως (eidállos) (Greek), אוֹ שֶׁ (english: o she) (Hebrew), וָלֹא (való) (Hebrew), אַחֶרֶת (aẖéret) (Hebrew), वरना (varnā) (Hindi), vagy pedig (Hungarian), máskülönben (Hungarian), különben (Hungarian), ellenkező esetben (Hungarian), annars (Icelandic), ella (Icelandic), altrimenti (Italian), se no (Italian), そうでなければ (sō de wa nakereba) (Japanese), 或いは (arui wa) (alt: あるいは) (Japanese), もしくは (moshiku wa) (Japanese), さもないと (samonai to) (Japanese), aliōquī (Latin), arba (Lithuanian), nes kitaip (Lithuanian), ellers (Norwegian), hvis ikke (Norwegian), وگرنه (vagarna) (Persian), bo inaczej (Polish), bo (Polish), inaczej (Polish), senão (Portuguese), caso contrário (Portuguese), [colloquial] (Romanian), că de nu (Romanian), (sau) altfel (Romanian), ина́че (ináče) (Russian), и́наче (ínače) (Russian), а то (english: a to) (Russian), а не то́ (a ne tó) (note: also a threat) (Russian), в проти́вном слу́чае (v protívnom slúčaje) (Russian), annars (Swedish), annars så (Swedish), དེ་མིན (de min) (Tibetan), ཡང་ན (yang na) (Tibetan), ورنہ (varnā) (Urdu), وگرنہ (vagarnā) (Urdu) Translations (no matter what): of anders (Dutch), tai muuten (Finnish), muutoin (Finnish), mert ha nem (akkor baj lesz) (Hungarian), (mert) különben (megnézheted magad) (english: and other combinations of the two phrases) (Hungarian), kalau tidak (Indonesian), bo inaczej (Polish), senão (Portuguese), o verás (Spanish), annars (Swedish), ورنہ (varnā) (Urdu), وگرنہ (vagarnā) (Urdu)
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          "sense": "as an alternative",
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          "sense": "as an alternative",
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          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "as an alternative",
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          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "as an alternative",
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        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "as an alternative",
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          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "as an alternative",
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          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "as an alternative",
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          "sense": "as an alternative",
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          "sense": "as an alternative",
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          "code": "ckb",
          "lang": "Central Kurdish",
          "roman": "dena",
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          "word": "دەنا"
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          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "as an alternative",
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          "code": "lt",
          "lang": "Lithuanian",
          "sense": "as an alternative",
          "word": "arba"
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          "code": "lt",
          "lang": "Lithuanian",
          "sense": "as an alternative",
          "word": "nes kitaip"
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          "code": "no",
          "lang": "Norwegian",
          "sense": "as an alternative",
          "word": "ellers"
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        {
          "code": "no",
          "lang": "Norwegian",
          "sense": "as an alternative",
          "word": "hvis ikke"
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          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "vagarna",
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          "word": "وگرنه"
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "as an alternative",
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "as an alternative",
          "word": "bo"
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        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "as an alternative",
          "word": "inaczej"
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          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "as an alternative",
          "word": "senão"
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        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "as an alternative",
          "word": "caso contrário"
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          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "as an alternative",
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          "word": "că"
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        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "as an alternative",
          "word": "că de nu"
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        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "as an alternative",
          "word": "(sau) altfel"
        },
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "ináče",
          "sense": "as an alternative",
          "word": "ина́че"
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        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "ínače",
          "sense": "as an alternative",
          "word": "и́наче"
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        {
          "code": "ru",
          "english": "a to",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "sense": "as an alternative",
          "word": "а то"
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        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "note": "also a threat",
          "roman": "a ne tó",
          "sense": "as an alternative",
          "word": "а не то́"
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          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "v protívnom slúčaje",
          "sense": "as an alternative",
          "word": "в проти́вном слу́чае"
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          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "as an alternative",
          "word": "annars"
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        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "as an alternative",
          "word": "annars så"
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          "code": "bo",
          "lang": "Tibetan",
          "roman": "de min",
          "sense": "as an alternative",
          "word": "དེ་མིན"
        },
        {
          "code": "bo",
          "lang": "Tibetan",
          "roman": "yang na",
          "sense": "as an alternative",
          "word": "ཡང་ན"
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          "code": "ur",
          "lang": "Urdu",
          "roman": "varnā",
          "sense": "as an alternative",
          "word": "ورنہ"
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          "roman": "vagarnā",
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          "word": "tai muuten"
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          "roman": "akkor baj lesz",
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          "word": "mert ha nem"
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          "word": "(mert) különben"
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          "word": "kalau tidak"
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          "word": "o verás"
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          "text": "Elon Musk to Workers: Spend 40 Hours in the Office, or Else [title]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2024 March 9, Jacob Bernstein, “A Former Trump Aide Becomes a Liberal Favorite”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "Joy Behar, who has called the MAGA movement a cult, poked her head into the room and demonstrated how invested she was in Ms. Farah Griffin’s success by offering some advice aimed squarely at me: “Be nice — or else.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "No matter what (implies an unspecified threat)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "No matter what",
          "no matter what"
        ],
        [
          "threat",
          "threat#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) No matter what (implies an unspecified threat)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "bi-ṭarīqa ʔuḵrā",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "بِطَرِيقَة أُخْرَى"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "wa-ʔillā",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "وَإِلَّا"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "aylapes",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "այլապես"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "tʿe čʿē",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "թե չէ"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "əks təqdirdə"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "yoxsa"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "ya da"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yàobùrán",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "要不然"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yàobù",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "要不"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "bùrán",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "不然"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "否則"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "fǒuzé",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "否则"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "ellers"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "või muidu"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "vastasel juhul"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "tai muuten"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "muutoin"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "sinon"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "tuarada",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "თუარადა"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "torem",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "თორემ"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "sonst"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "anders"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "andernfalls"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "eidállos",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "ειδάλλως"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "ei dè mḗ ge",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "εἰ δὲ μή γε"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "english": "o she",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "אוֹ שֶׁ"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "való",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "וָלֹא"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "aẖéret",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "אַחֶרֶת"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "varnā",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "वरना"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "vagy pedig"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "máskülönben"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "különben"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "ellenkező esetben"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "annars"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "ella"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "altrimenti"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "se no"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "sō de wa nakereba",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "そうでなければ"
    },
    {
      "alt": "あるいは",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "arui wa",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "或いは"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "moshiku wa",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "もしくは"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "samonai to",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "さもないと"
    },
    {
      "code": "ckb",
      "lang": "Central Kurdish",
      "roman": "dena",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "دەنا"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "aliōquī"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "arba"
    },
    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "nes kitaip"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "ellers"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "hvis ikke"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "vagarna",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "وگرنه"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "bo inaczej"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "bo"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "inaczej"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "senão"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "caso contrário"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ],
      "word": "că"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "că de nu"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "(sau) altfel"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ináče",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "ина́че"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ínače",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "и́наче"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "english": "a to",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "а то"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "note": "also a threat",
      "roman": "a ne tó",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "а не то́"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "v protívnom slúčaje",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "в проти́вном слу́чае"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "annars"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "annars så"
    },
    {
      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "roman": "de min",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "དེ་མིན"
    },
    {
      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "roman": "yang na",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "ཡང་ན"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "varnā",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "ورنہ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "vagarnā",
      "sense": "as an alternative",
      "word": "وگرنہ"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "no matter what",
      "word": "of anders"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "no matter what",
      "word": "tai muuten"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "no matter what",
      "word": "muutoin"
    },
    {
      "alt": "",
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "roman": "akkor baj lesz",
      "sense": "no matter what",
      "word": "mert ha nem"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "english": "and other combinations of the two phrases",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "roman": "megnézheted magad",
      "sense": "no matter what",
      "word": "(mert) különben"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "no matter what",
      "word": "kalau tidak"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "no matter what",
      "word": "bo inaczej"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "no matter what",
      "word": "senão"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "no matter what",
      "word": "o verás"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "no matter what",
      "word": "annars"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "varnā",
      "sense": "no matter what",
      "word": "ورنہ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "vagarnā",
      "sense": "no matter what",
      "word": "وگرنہ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "or else"
}

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