Meaning & use
Thereon
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On or upon that thing just mentioned; immediately following that.
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The deed described the property and the buildings standing thereon.
He read the notice and acted thereon without a moment's delay.
A note on using this word
'Thereon' belongs to a family of formal adverbs built from 'there' plus a preposition, like 'therein' and 'thereof,' and survives mainly in legal and formal writing.
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