by design

English

Prepositional phrase

by design

  1. Intentionally, on purpose.
    Coordinate term: by accident
    • 2019 March 8, Jeneen Interlandi, “Vaping Is Big Tobacco’s Bait and Switch”, in The New York Times‎[1]:
      All of that — the appeal, the access, the illicitness of cigarettes — was by design.
  2. Designed specifically for a given purpose, to have a particular feature.
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