rather than
Coordinator
[change]Coordinator |
- You use rather than to connect two things when only one is true, preferred, or appropriate.
- We're going to do it sooner rather than later.
- People who learn languages quickly are the exception rather than the rule.
- This change will increase rather than decrease their chances.
- She insisted on having the room papered rather than painted.
Expression
[change]Expression |
- In preference to; instead of.
- Rather than you do the job, I'd prefer to finish it myself.
- Rather than sell the painting, Tim preferred to destroy it.
- Rather than engage in a long report over the telephone, I had invited him to lunch with me at home on this quiet Sunday.
- Rather than that should happen, he would give up his job.
- Rather than going directly home, she had turned walking into the afternoon thickness of downtown.
- She made students think for themselves, rather than telling them what to think.
- Bryson decided to quit rather than accept the new rules.