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here's

contraction
SayHEERZ/hɪɹz/UK/hɪə(ɹ)z/

2 meanings of here's

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  1. 1
    contractionabbreviationcontraction
    Contraction of here is.

    Here's the report you wanted before the meeting starts.

    Here's an idea that might solve the whole problem.

    Note

    Here the verb has been folded into the adverb: the 's is a reduced is, attached to here, the word for this place or this point. The subject follows the verb, as in here's the report or here's an idea, so the contraction presents one thing that is present or close at hand. The same spelling also stands for the plural "here are" shortcut, and only what follows tells the two apart.

  2. 2
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    Contraction of here are, a nonstandard use; careful speech and writing keep "here are" before a plural.

    Here's the tickets for tonight's show, so don't lose them.

    Here's the photos from our trip last summer.

    Note

    A plural slips past here because the verb comes first: in here's the tickets, the contracted is is already spoken before the plural noun arrives. Ben Travers's A Cuckoo in the Nest (1922) quotes a Christmas-card motto, "Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer," where it fronts two things joined by and. It belongs to speech and to writing that imitates speech, like that greeting card.

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