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Date: 1600-1700
Language: Latin
Origin: 'position turned'

vice versa

 adverb
     
vice ver‧sa
used to say that the opposite of a situation you have just described is also true:
The boys may refuse to play with the girls, and vice versa.
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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