as follows

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   what is listed next

   “her complaints went as follows”

Questions about as follows

What does as follows mean?

as follows means "what is listed next".

Is as follows a common word?

as follows is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.