(adv) if nothing else (`leastwise' is informal and `leastways' is colloquial), Syn. at any rate, leastways, leastwise, Example:at least he survived; they felt--at any rate Jim felt--relieved though still wary; the influence of economists--or at any rate of economics--is far-reaching
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