# nexus

Pronunciation: say "NEK-suhs" /ˈnɛksəs/

## Noun

1. A connection between things, or a connected group or network of people or things.
   - Simple: A link, or a network of links, between people or things.
   - _Researchers are studying the nexus between poverty and poor health._
   - _The court found no causal nexus between the company's actions and the injury._
2. The center or focal point of something.
   - Simple: The center or main point of something.
   - _For two centuries the port was the nexus of trade between Europe and Asia._
   - _The small café became a nexus for the city's young artists and writers._
3. The relationship between a seller and a jurisdiction that matters for taxation, established for example when the seller operates a physical store there. *(Canada, US)*
   - Simple: In tax law, the link between a seller and a state or area, such as having a store there.
   - _Opening a warehouse in the state gave the retailer nexus there, so it began collecting sales tax from local customers._
   - _Our accountant is checking whether the remote employees create nexus in any new states._

## Other meanings

- (noun) In the grammatical system of the Danish linguist Otto Jespersen (1860–1943), a word group that joins two ideas into one unit, as a clause or sentence does.
- (noun) In Ancient Rome, a debtor bound by a nexum, an obligation under which a creditor could force them to work as a servant until an unpaid debt was cleared; an indentured servant.

## Origin

From Latin nexus, “connection, binding, bond,” from nectō, “to bind, tie, connect,” with the noun-forming suffix -tus.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/nexus (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).