Usually means: Exactly, with exactness or accuracy.
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  1. precisely: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. precisely: Merriam-Webster
  3. precisely: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. precisely: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. precisely: Collins English Dictionary
  6. precisely: Vocabulary.com
  7. Precisely, precisely: Wordnik
  8. precisely: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. precisely: Wiktionary
  10. precisely: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. precisely: Dictionary.com
  12. precisely: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Precisely: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. precisely: Rhymezone
  15. precisely: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. precisely: FreeDictionary.org
  17. precisely: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. precisely: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. precisely: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. precisely: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. precisely: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adverb:  (manner) In a precise manner; exactly.
▸ adverb:  (focus) Used to provide emphasis.

Similar:
exactly, just, incisively, on the button, on the dot, on the nose, exact, precise, inexactly, accurately, more...

Opposite:
vaguely, approximately, loosely, inaccurately, generally

Types:
exactly, precise, more...

Phrases:
more precisely, precisely accurate, precisely defined, precisely expressed, precisely idiom, more...

Colors:
    silver,     steel blue,     slate gray,     charcoal,     pewter, more...



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Similar:
exactly, just, incisively, on the button, on the dot, on the nose, exact, precise, inexactly, accurately, more...

Opposite:
vaguely, approximately, loosely, inaccurately, generally

Types:
exactly, precise, more...

Phrases:
more precisely, precisely accurate, precisely defined, precisely expressed, precisely idiom, more...

Colors:
    silver,     steel blue,     slate gray,     charcoal,     pewter, more...



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