any : Idioms & Phrases

• adverb at the present or from now on; usually used with a negative
  anymore.
  
  • Alice doesn't live here anymore
  • the children promised not to quarrel any more

WordNet

• noun a takeover bid where the acquirer offers to buy any and all shares outstanding
  

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• adverb regardless of the cost involved
  at all costs; at any cost.
  
  • he wanted to save her life at all cost

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• adverb regardless of the cost involved
  at all costs; at any cost.
  
  • he wanted to save her life at all cost

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• in any (or no) way or direction; on any account; on no account. "And therefore at no hand consisting with the safety and interests of humility." Jer. Taylor.

Webster 1913

• adverb used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement; anyhow, they're quiet"; anyway, it's gone"; in any case, there was a brief scuffle"
  anyway; at any rate; anyways; anyhow; in any case.
  
  • Anyhow, he is dead now
  • I think they're asleep
  • I don't know what happened to it
  • anyway, there is another factor to consider
  • I don't know how it started
  • in any event, the government faced a serious protest
  • but at any rate he got a knighthood for it
• adverb if nothing else (`leastwise' is informal and `leastways' is colloquial)
  leastways; at least; leastwise.
  
  • at least he survived
  • they felt--at any rate Jim felt--relieved though still wary
  • the influence of economists--or at any rate of economics--is far-reaching

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• whatever may be the state of affairs; anyhow.

Webster 1913

• in any way possible; by any sort of means.

Webster 1913

• adverb in any way necessary
  by hook or by crook.
  
  • I'll pass this course by hook or by crook

WordNet

• in any way; possibly; at all.

  If by any means I might attain to the resurrection of the dead. Phil. iii. ll.

Webster 1913

• adverb under any circumstances
  for love or money; for anything; for all the world.
  
  • she wouldn't give up her pets for love or money

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• adverb used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement; anyhow, they're quiet"; anyway, it's gone"; in any case, there was a brief scuffle"
  anyway; at any rate; anyways; anyhow; in any case.
  
  • Anyhow, he is dead now
  • I think they're asleep
  • I don't know what happened to it
  • anyway, there is another factor to consider
  • I don't know how it started
  • in any event, the government faced a serious protest
  • but at any rate he got a knighthood for it
• adverb making an additional point; anyway; besides, we can't afford it"
  besides.
  
  • I don't want to go to a restaurant
  • she couldn't shelter behind him all the time and in any case he wasn't always with her

WordNet

• whatever may be the state of affairs; anyhow.

Webster 1913

• adverb used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement; anyhow, they're quiet"; anyway, it's gone"; in any case, there was a brief scuffle"
  anyway; at any rate; anyways; anyhow; in any case.
  
  • Anyhow, he is dead now
  • I think they're asleep
  • I don't know what happened to it
  • anyway, there is another factor to consider
  • I don't know how it started
  • in any event, the government faced a serious protest
  • but at any rate he got a knighthood for it

WordNet

• to be conversant or familiar with it.

Webster 1913

• to keep at a distance from it.

Webster 1913