Google dictionary has this information about the origin of ex Is short for exempli gratia, and is in common use to introduce an example within a sentence Submit a sample of academic writing, e.g., a dissertation chapter However, some authors use ex. In writing, though, the use of former doesn't seem so rare In informal english, especially us english, it is acceptable to say
I saw your ex with this hot dude yesterday Or, she is still in touch with all of her exes. Ex by itself (no hyphen) doesn't seem right either Can each part be hyphenated, or the hyphen dropped altogether Is there another way to make this more clear while still keeping the ex prefix? In legal language i have come across the term ex post facto
Post facto also means after the fact, so it should be sufficient This is commonly used in Whichever rule you choose and stick to, you'll be swimming against the linguistic tide with much of your text! I believe your intuition is correct, ex yard is being used to mean this is the price to pick them up outside the yard [location] where they currently are (i.e Not the price to have them delivered to your desired location) Googling the term ex yard, the first result is this investopedia entry on the term ex works which means that exactly
My guess is that ex yard and ex works are.
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