neither

det

1. Not one of two; not either; not one or the other.

   “Neither definition seems correct.”

   “She was neither learned nor intelligent, but she contrived to dress both herself and her daughter out of a meagre jointure, supplying with her clever fingers what her purse could not buy;[…].”

conj

1. Not either (used with nor).

   “Neither you nor I likes it.”

   “For most people, this sacrifice is made easily and instinctively. Not so for otroverts, who are neither willing nor able to passively adopt the social scripts that others do. To the otrovert, who is constantly engaged with the choices and consequences of their individual life, social norms follow a circular logic: […]”

2. (archaic)Nor.

   “But here thou canst not handle aught, neither make the folk ware of thee, not though thou shout thy throat hoarse.”

pron

1. Not either one of two.

   “I’ve tried on both shirts, but neither fits properly.”

   “Her words of advice will help neither of us.”

adv

1. (not-comparable)Similarly not.

   “Just as you would not correct it, neither would I.”

   “Neither can she stop him, nor can he stop her.”

   “Neither now, nor ever will he forsake his mother.”

   “The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them[…]is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies. […] current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.”