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  • abbreviation Abbreviation for 株式会社 (kabushiki kaisha, kabushiki gaisha), Japanese for a type of business organization defined under Japanese law and roughly equivalent to a stock company.

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  • Tuy Sobil, who goes by the street name K.K., joined the Crips in Long Beach, Calif., when he was 13, started time he was 18.

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  • Hedge-fund giant Fortress Investment Group last summer made a $250 million investment in daVinci Holdings K.K. and said it had finished fund raising for an $800 million private-equity fund targeting real-estate debt in Japan.

    Japan Quake Spooks Its Property Recovery Anton Troianovski 2011

  • The figure of the wealthy landowner K.K. Harouni is the recurring thread that connects the lives of the disparate characters in Daniyal Mueenuddin's In Other Rooms, Other Wonders.

    In Other Rooms, Other Wonders by Daniyal Mueenuddin: Questions 2009

  • And K.K. (Kaynin Mosley-Smith) is a bit undersized but, in our system, those guys do well.

    Pittsburgh - Team Notes 2010

  • K.K. Arora/Reuters Men and women took part in "huranga" in Dauji temple near the northern Indian city of Mathura on Tuesday.

    Asia in Photos 2010

  • K.K. Arora/Reuters Men and women took part in "huranga" in Dauji temple near the northern Indian city of Mathura on Tuesday.

    Asia in Photos 2010

  • Not with K.K. He lifts him up in the sky, to throw him as far as he can.

    Going Bananas 2010

  • K.K. Arora/Reuters Men and women took part in "huranga" in Dauji temple near the northern Indian city of Mathura on Tuesday.

    Asia in Photos 2010

  • K.K. Arora/Reuters Men and women took part in "huranga" in Dauji temple near the northern Indian city of Mathura on Tuesday.

    Asia in Photos 2010

  • K.K. Arora/Reuters Men and women took part in "huranga" in Dauji temple near the northern Indian city of Mathura on Tuesday.

    Asia in Photos 2010

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