adverb
- In large part; mainly or chiefly.
- usage: "These accounts are largely inactive"
- synonyms: largely, for the most part
- Usually; as a rule.
- usage: "by and large it doesn't rain much here"
- synonyms: by and large, generally, more often than not
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