all inadj

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  datedVery tired.

  • [Yawn] Well, I'm all in! Time to turn in! Good night all!
  • By half past seven we were both pretty nearly all in, and wet from innumerable fordings of the river, so we stopped and boiled some hot water with the sugar left over from lunch.
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  With everything included.

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  card-gamespokerHaving no further stake to wager, but remaining active in a hand.

  • By betting his last $100, John was all in.
• 4

  Totally committed.

  • John is now all in on getting this product to market by year end, come hell or high water.

all inadv

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  Synonym of all in all.

  • All in, one could perhaps be excused for thinking the right way to answer my employer’s question concerning my “pattern of sexual, emotional, and/or romantic attraction to men, women, and/or people of other genders” is not to tick the “I prefer not to answer” box but to opt instead for a respectful “none of your business” write-in. Are there places where the reservations I’ve suggested don’t come into view? Yes: the Canadian census, for example, asks some similarly probing questions — but from my perspective, it has a different standing. The information it requests is part of the relationship of citizenship, in which the government has obligations to the citizenry, and the citizenry has reciprocal obligations to the government. […] No such symmetry of right and obligation in an original social contract exists between employees and employers. Within the enabling constraints of law, I sell labour to my employer — nothing more, nothing less.

all innoun

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  card-gamespokerA hand where at least one player bets all of his or her chips.

• 2

  card-gamespokerA player who is all in.

  • Since she was against an all in, Jill had no reason to bet.