Definition
(clean the kitchen, and) by extension (everything in it): (clean the kitchen, and) therefore, via implication (everything in it)
- "Your task is to clean the laboratory, and by extension, any monkeys therein."
- "Though the details of Stink's gruesome murder are still hazy, I'm sure that you understand my deep and pervasive hatred for you, and by extension, all things British."
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