Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation subaltern
- abbreviation suburb
- abbreviation suburban
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Examples
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On November 2, 2006, she was officially hired full-time in the same classroom she opened as a long-term sub.
John Koch: Hey LAUSD, Please Save Ms. Brier Before It's Too Late 2009
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"But I have high expectations for the long-term sub.
Silver Chips Online 2009
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I have tried most of the declarations to call my sub.
ASP.NET Forums 2010
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Subprime is by definition not acceptable for Fannie and Freddie, that's what makes it "sub."
Some people say America wants change. But what makes you think that if there is change, it will be an improvement? Ann Althouse 2008
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Captain told me that he intended, if a "sub." showed up, to go for it full tilt and run it down.
"The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders John Allister Currie
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But, while below, or when off duty, he insisted on my retaining my old custom of calling him by his Christian name, the same as when we were together in the gunroom, and he only a "sub."
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The latter, provoking images of a lush and fertile savanna, whose identity is derived from the very prefix which separates it, 'sub.'
The Bwog 2009
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Many Raiders lost their uniforms and equipment on the return trip to the sub. courtesy of Dean Winters
Into the Rising Sun Patrick K. O’Donnell 2002
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