Meaning & use
Whereby
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By which; through which means or process.
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The company introduced a new policy whereby employees can work remotely two days a week.
They signed an agreement whereby all profits would be shared equally.
A note on using this word
"Whereby" is a formal, somewhat old-fashioned connector common in legal and official writing, combining "where" with "by" the way older English formed words like "wherein" and "whereupon."
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through whichby means of which
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