if you will

adv — 3 senses

if you will

adv

1

Please, kindly; used in giving a non-concrete instruction.

But imagine, if you will, a world where these logistical problems were solved.

2

So to speak, like; used to indicate that a description is not standard.

These are "partial artifacts", if you will: the imaging process has merely amplified flaws that were already present in the original.
Today's blackenization, if you will, of the prisons only exacerbates racist proclivities in nonblack Americans to associate black people with wrong.2001, Mark Lewis Taylor, The Executed God: The Way of the Cross in Lockdown America, Fortress Press, →ISBN, page 28:

3

Used in conceding a description or choice of terms.

He wasn't a very honest person; a liar, if you will.

Synonyms: if you like

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