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Or is the equivalent of and/or
Bryan A Garner, The Elements of Legal Style, 2d ed (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002) at 103:
and/or. Banish from your working vocabulary this "much condemned conjunctive-disjunctive crutch of sloppy thinkers" (citing Raine v Drasin, discussed below) . . . .
The word or usually includes the sense of and:
No food or drink allowed.
That sentence does not suggest that food or drink by itself is disallowed while food and drink together are OK . . . .
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