<entry id="2053333" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
<ent_corp type="jmdict">jmdict</ent_corp>
<ent_seq>2118830</ent_seq>
<k_ele>
<keb>早く言えば</keb>
</k_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>はやくいえば</reb>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&exp;</pos>
<gloss>in a word</gloss>
<gloss>to put it briefly</gloss>
<gloss>to make a long story short</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2006-12-21 00:00:00" stat="A">
<upd_detl>Entry created</upd_detl>
</audit>
<audit time="2019-12-06 11:16:38" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Marcus Richert</upd_name>
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<upd_detl>Needed? Not particularly common and 
straightforward adv+conjugated verb</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>早く言えば	15061</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -13 +12,0 @@
-&lt;xref type="see" seq="2118820"&gt;手っ取り早く言えば&lt;/xref&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2019-12-07 00:38:58" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>I don't think the meaning is that obvious. Since we just dropped 手っ取り早く言えば, which is in a GG5 example, I think it's worth keeping this.</upd_detl>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>