in light of

English

Etymology

Probably from in the light of

Pronunciation

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Preposition

in light of

1. (idiomatic, Australia, Canada, US) given, considering

   In light of the frequent kidnappings in Iraq, do you suppose someone could invent a small tracking device that could be woven onto clothing and hard to find on it so that when someone gets kidnapped, the tracking devices could pin down their location?

   • 2015, Roy Posner, A New Way of Living, page 103:

     The United Nations then became the one great attempt to establish a formal institution to unify the world, especially in light of the darkness that preceded it.

   • 2019, Li Huang; James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, DOI:10.1080/01434632.2019.1596115, page 2:

     In light of such conceptualisations of the power of linguistic landscapes, we set out to examine the connection between the visual landscape and the spoken landscape in our institution[.]

Synonyms

• in view of

Translations

given, considering

• Arabic: عَلَى ضَوْء‎ (ʿalā ḍawʾ)

  Egyptian Arabic: على ضوء‎ (ʿala ḍooʾ)

• Armenian: լույսի ներքո (luysi nerkʿo)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 依照 (zh) (yīzhào), 鑒於 (zh), 鑑於 (zh), 鉴于 (zh) (jiànyú), 比照 (zh) (bǐzhào)

• Finnish: jonkin valossa
• French: à la lumière de (fr), au vu de (fr)
• German: angesichts (de), in Anbetracht (de), im Hinblick auf (de)

• Hebrew: לאור‎ (l'ór-)
• Italian: alla luce di
• Polish: w świetle
• Portuguese: à luz de, em vista de
• Romanian: în lumina
• Russian: в све́те (ru) (v svéte), в виду́ того́, что (v vidú tovó, što)
• Spanish: en vista de
• Welsh: yn sgil

See also

• bearing in mind
• in lieu of