traditionally

adv — 2 senses

traditionally

adv

/tɹəˈdɪʃ.ə.nə.li/ · /tɹəˈdɪʃ.nə.li/

Etymology From traditional + -ly.

1

In a traditional manner.

2

From the beginning.

  • The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about[…]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention. Partly, this is a result of how online advertising has traditionally worked: advertisers pay for clicks, and a click is a click, however it's obtained.2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 48:
  • Skilled foreign farm workers are the backbone of US agriculture and are traditionally in the US on H-2A seasonal visas, which saw its highest ever utilization rate this year, according to the Farm Bureau.2022 December 22, Vanessa Yurkevich, “America needs immigrants to solve its labor shortage”, in CNN:
Antonyms
nontraditionally, untraditionally

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