therefor

1. 1.

   (in formal usage, especially legal usage) for that or for it

   “ordering goods and enclosing payment therefor”

   “a refund therefor”

   law

Questions about therefor

What does therefor mean?

therefor means "(in formal usage, especially legal usage) for that or for it".

How many syllables are in therefor?

therefor has 3 syllables and divides as the-re-for under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is therefor a common word?

therefor is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.