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netwise

adverb

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adj

Etymology: From Middle English nettwyse, nette wise, nette wyse, equivalent to net + -wise.

  1. Like a net or lattice; netlike, latticelike.

    Yet despite its collapse, this long-shot to front-runner campaign stands out as the best example to date of what a netwise operation can achieve.

adv

Etymology: From Middle English nettwyse, nette wise, nette wyse, equivalent to net + -wise.

  1. In the manner or configuration of a net

    “They have also other ornaments, which they call cawles, made netwise, to the end, as I think, that the cloth of gold, cloth of silver, or else tinsel (for that is the worst), wherewith their heads are covered and attired withal […]”

    Nature, as Bacon pithily says, joins her work rather 'netwise than chainwise.'