Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - thus

Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. You use thus to show that what you are about to mention is the result or consequence of something else that you have just mentioned. (FORMAL) Even in a highly skilled workforce some people will be more capable and thus better paid than others. = therefore, hence ADV: ADV with cl/group 2. If you say that something is thus or happens thus you mean that it is, or happens, as you have just described or as you are just about to describe. (FORMAL) Joanna was pouring the drink. While she was thus engaged, Charles sat on one of the bar-stools... ADV: ADV with v, ADV cl