Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The ISO 3166-1 three-letter (alpha-3) code for Russia.
  • abbreviation US Rural Utilities Service

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word RUS.

Examples

  • I guess the name RUS-ORO fooled me too into thinking it was a Russian company ... but how does this leave your favorite company, Crystallex? "

    Sparks Are Flying Around Venezuela's November 23 Elections 2008

  • If we regress further back in the causative chain, we note that the RUS is a child born in 1991 of the changes that took about 1990 in Medicare payments from what was called customary, reasonable and prevailing payments for medical services to a Medicare determined price control system.

    If you discuss health care reform you cannot ignore RUS james gaulte 2009

  • If we regress further back in the causative chain, we note that the RUS is a child born in 1991 of the changes that took about 1990 in Medicare payments from what was called customary, reasonable and prevailing payments for medical services to a Medicare determined price control system.

    Archive 2009-01-01 james gaulte 2009

  • (valuation 42 pounds), of grazing turbary surrounding a baronial hall with gatelodge and carriage drive nor, on the other hand, a terracehouse or semidetached villa, described as RUS IN URBE or QUI

    Ulysses 2003

  • Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service ( "RUS") had approved United Utilities, Inc's application for an $88 million loan/grant combination to extend terrestrial broadband service for the first time to Bristol Bay and the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta

    NewsBlaze.com Current News - Top Stories 2010

  • In short, a wide range of eligible entities will compete for grants and loans through a bidding process managed by the Department of Commerce's NTIA and the Rural Utilities Service ( "RUS") of the Department of Agriculture.

    xchange magazine Articles 2009

  • Thanks to these RUS loans, more rural Midwesterners are seeing the benefits of the telecommunications revolution that has been sweeping across our nation and the globe.

    Shirley Bloomfield: Obama Administration Is Sending Mixed Signals on Rural Economic Development Shirley Bloomfield 2011

  • Thanks to these RUS loans, more rural Midwesterners are seeing the benefits of the telecommunications revolution that has been sweeping across our nation and the globe.

    Shirley Bloomfield: Obama Administration Is Sending Mixed Signals on Rural Economic Development Shirley Bloomfield 2011

  • On one hand our country has the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service RUS, which has been playing a critical role in rural economic development by providing loans to help build and maintain rural utilities, such as electric, telephone, water and waste.

    Shirley Bloomfield: Obama Administration Is Sending Mixed Signals on Rural Economic Development Shirley Bloomfield 2011

  • Most recently, and perhaps most importantly, RUS has begun providing loans specifically for broadband deployment to small rural broadband companies who are often the only source of telecommunications services in their area.

    Shirley Bloomfield: Obama Administration Is Sending Mixed Signals on Rural Economic Development Shirley Bloomfield 2011

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.