Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A prefix of Latin origin, the usual form, before a vowel or h, of com- (the m in Latin being weak), meaning ‘together’ or ‘with.’ See com-.
  • noun An abbreviation of company: as, Smith, Brown & Co.;
  • noun of county: as, Orange Co., New York.
  • noun The chemical symbol for cobalt.
  • noun In geometry, a prefix, as in co-sine, co-secant, co-tangent, etc., meaning sine, secant, tangent, etc., of the complement.

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  • noun slang company
  • pronoun neologism they (singular). Gender-neutral subject pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.
  • pronoun neologism them (singular). Gender-neutral object pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns him and her.

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  • noun one who refuses to serve in the armed forces on grounds of conscience
  • noun a hard ferromagnetic silver-white bivalent or trivalent metallic element; a trace element in plant and animal nutrition
  • noun a state in west central United States in the Rocky Mountains
  • noun an odorless very poisonous gas that is a product of incomplete combustion of carbon

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Examples

  • You can email us here: info at venturemaps. co (yep, that's .co, not. com) ...

    Dave Lerner: Mapping the Whole Venture Capital Ecosystem 2010

  • Approach would be to create some text about the new co domain and how having a high quality .co domain name can help advertisers or business.

    Freelancer.com - New Projects 2010

  • ¿e nie mam siê w co ubraæ. bo zawsze coœ siê znajdzie a oni i tak powiedza ¿e jestem bjutiful bejbi. sporo sie zmienilo. sie zyje.

    - pozytywnie 2004

  • September 7th, 2009 1: 43 pm ET this women in co is apsolutely idiot. how about our children speak more languages so they can catch-up with the world

    Obama speech to school children: 'You make your own future' 2009

  • After he played about 150 shows, a gig in Los Angeles brought him to the attention of ATO Records, the label co-founded by Dave Matthews.

    Patience Is the Heart Jim Fusilli 2011

  • I would like to believe that many or most of the physician investigators were deceived as the alternative is that they knew it was wink-wink-nudge-nudge pretense of a trial and the term co-conspirator would apply.

    Archive 2008-08-01 james gaulte 2008

  • I would like to believe that many or most of the physician investigators were deceived as the alternative is that they knew it was wink-wink-nudge-nudge pretense of a trial and the term co-conspirator would apply.

    Annals Internal Medicine article dissects the "seeding trial" aka "Marketing trial" james gaulte 2008

  • The Kerry camp established a system early on for recognizing major fund-raisers: those who raised at least $50,000 were given the title co-chair; those who raised more than $100,000 became vice chairs.

    Archive 2004-08-01 2004

  • Before going farther, it is essential to acquire a definite notion of what is meant, or, at least, of what we mean in this discussion, by the term co-education.

    Sex in Education or, A Fair Chance for Girls Edward Hammond Clarke 1848

  • If we find, contrary to our previous belief, that the characters are not peculiar to one species, we cease to use the term co-extensively with the characters; but then it is because the other portion of the connotation fails; the condition that the class must be a

    A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839

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  • A jackdaw (obsolete).

    December 6, 2007

  • Co. Chemical element symbol for Cobalt.

    December 16, 2007