Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation Civil Aeronautics Board

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  • initialism US Civil Aeronautics Board
  • initialism UK Citizens Advice Bureau
  • initialism Ireland Criminal Assets Bureau
  • initialism chest compressions, airway and breathing
  • initialism military, US Combat Action Badge

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Examples

  • CAB is a code word since (1) gives no rule for generating another word from the base word.

    LearnHub Activities 2008

  • CAB is a code word since now we have no word to apply this rule to.

    LearnHub Activities 2008

  • CAB is for all those convoy drivers, MPs, and others who get shot up in a front line free battlefield.

    Some Odds and Ends 2007

  • And I didn't move Toronto -- even though they won at CAB, which is not easy.

    Top 15 for March 24 Duane Rollins 2009

  • The CAB was a New Deal agency with responsibility for aviation rule-making, accident investigation, and the like, while the companion Civil Aeronautics Administration looked after air traffic, airway development, etc.

    Amazing Persistance of Bureaucracies 2008

  • Taking the CAB was a kind of karmic payback for all the times that I found it amusing to recite random integers within earshot of someone trying to memorize a phone number.

    Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004

  • Taking the CAB was a kind of karmic payback for all the times that I found it amusing to recite random integers within earshot of someone trying to memorize a phone number.

    Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004

  • Taking the CAB was a kind of karmic payback for all the times that I found it amusing to recite random integers within earshot of someone trying to memorize a phone number.

    Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004

  • Taking the CAB was a kind of karmic payback for all the times that I found it amusing to recite random integers within earshot of someone trying to memorize a phone number.

    Mind Wide Open Steven Johnson 2004

  • In the light of these concerns, we've decided to keep the existing two proposed choices on the table but to add a new third option for current members, a career average benefits option which we've called CAB 2011.

    Latest news and comment from Britain | guardian.co.uk 2010

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