What does the word according mean?

    Part of speech: adjective

  • Agreeing; harmonizing.

Usage examples for according

  1. According to your view of the case I shan't do much with him. – An Old Man's Love by Anthony Trollope
  2. Give eleven cents on every dollar ye take, above $ 30, 000. 00, to your salespeople, as a bonus and divide it among them according to their salaries. – Dawson Black: Retail Merchant by Harold Whitehead
  3. The line was complete, according to the orders for the march. – Ismailia by Samuel W. Baker