From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishfor the sake of argumentfor the sake of argumentspokenEXAMPLE if you say something for the sake of argument, what you say may not be true but it will help you to have a discussion Let’s say, just for the sake of argument, that you’ve got £200 to invest. → sake
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for the sake of argument• Let us assume for the sake of argument that Inevitable is correct.• Let us assume for the sake of argument that you are not Joan Crawford.• Let's say for the sake of argument it was the scullery window.• This already poses problems, but let us say, for the sake of argument, that it is equivalent to place.• Let us say for the sake of argument that it is five different partners on the same night.• Suppose, for the sake of argument, man, the true perpetrators of this crime are our enemies. 