as of

See also: asof

English

Pronunciation

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Preposition

as of

1. (idiomatic) At or by a specified time, with the implication that the said condition will be true from that time onward.

   All leave is cancelled as of now.

   The server will be down for maintenance as of tomorrow afternoon.

   • 1854 August 9, Henry D[avid] Thoreau, “Economy”, in Walden; or, Life in the Woods, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC:

     Under the most splendid house in the city is still to be found the cellar where they store their roots as of old, and long after the superstructure has disappeared posterity remark its dent in the earth.

2. (idiomatic) At a specified time, with the implication that the said condition was or will be true at that time.

   The US has a population of 300 million, as of 2006.

Usage notes

• This idiom can often be replaced by "in," "at," "from," or nothing. See the blendings as of yet and as of late.

Translations

from a specified time

• Arabic: اِعْتِبَارًا مِن (iʕtibāran min), اِبْتِدَاءً مِن (ibtidāʔan min)

  Egyptian Arabic: من .. وطالع (men ... we ṭaaleʕ)

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 自……起 (zì... qǐ)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: vanaf (nl)
• Finnish: alkaen (fi)
• French: à partir de (fr), à compter de (fr)
• German: ab (de)
• Icelandic: frá og með
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ab (no)

• Polish: od (pl), począwszy od (pl)
• Portuguese: desde (pt), a partir de (pt), começando (pt)
• Russian: от (ru) (ot), с (ru) (s), по состоянию на (po sostojaniju na), этой даты (etoj daty) ...
• Spanish: desde (es), a partir de (es)
• Swedish: från och med (sv)
• Ukrainian: з (uk) (z), ста́ном на (stánom na), з ціє́ї да́ти (z cijéji dáty)
• Vietnamese: tính đến

Anagrams

• OFAs, SOFA, oafs, sofa