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  • initialism Initialism of American Dialect Society.
  • initialism Initialism of Automated decision support.

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  • This index, which we will henceforth refer to as the ADS, takes in a variety of economic data, mashes it all together and comes out with an up-to-the-minute reading on the economy at least once a week.

    Two More Hidden Market Signals Simon Constable 2011

  • You can buy this stock, by the way, here in the United States, as something called ADS, an American Depository Share, so you don't have to go on the Tokyo Exchange.

    CNN Transcript Apr 23, 2006 2006

  • You can buy this stock, by the way, here in the United States, as something called ADS, an American Depository Share, so you don't have to go on the Tokyo Exchange.

    CNN Transcript Apr 22, 2006 2006

  • Fakie denied allegations that he neglected to mention in the report gifts of up to R7,000 received by naval officers from ADS, which is Schabir Shaik's company.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • These companies jointly own ADS, which is at the centre of the arms deal.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • These companies jointly own ADS, which is at the centre of the arms deal.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • DUMMIE "ADS" -- WARNTED, A WIFE, BY THE RELIGUS EDDITUR.

    The Bad Boy At Home And His Experiences In Trying To Become An Editor - 1885 Metta Victoria Fuller Victor 1858

  • Consisting mostly of US and Canadian heavy-duty repair shops, the ADS is the diesel industry's leading trade association, dedicated to the highest level of service on diesel fuel injection and related systems.

    unknown title 2009

  • Consisting mostly of US and Canadian heavy-duty repair shops, the ADS is the diesel industry's leading trade association, dedicated to the highest level of service on diesel fuel injection and related systems.

    unknown title 2009

  • Consisting mostly of US and Canadian heavy-duty repair shops, the ADS is the diesel industry's leading trade association, dedicated to the highest level of service on diesel fuel injection and related systems.

    unknown title 2009

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  • Yiddish plural for in-laws. No one word sums up the relationship between father and mother of a bride and groom better than this.

    May 16, 2009

  • It's Yiddish for the parents of the person of the bride or groom. The father is the "Mekhuten" and the mother is the "mekhutayneste." Very useful, and to the best of my knowledge, non-existent in English. It represents the unification of families by marriage. According to YIVO standard convention for transliteration from Yiddish to roman text, it should probably be "makhutonim."

    May 16, 2009

  • Needs another definition: "Aim down sights" in gaming/shooting! (I presume shooting anyway, I only use it in the virtual sense)

    June 20, 2021