por extenso

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Portuguese

Adverb

por extenso

  1. (of writing a number or an acronym) at full length or in expanded form
    Escrevendo-se por extenso, o numeral 291 torna-se "duzentos e noventa e um".
    If you write it out, the number 291 becomes "two hundred ninety-one".

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