Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation comparative
- abbreviation compensation
- abbreviation compiled
- abbreviation complete
- abbreviation composer
- abbreviation composition
- abbreviation compound
- abbreviation comprehensive
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Examples
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She was thirty-five, unmarried, specialized in women's studies, but had a Ph.D. in comparative literature, which she always called comp. lit.
Beard 2010
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It happened in 1995 in a Usenet Group called comp.text.sgml.
Archive 2008-11-01 2008
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One of the happier byproducts of this whole blogging thing is that people are getting the sort of drill they used to get in English comp.
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This article will focus on workers comp. from the employers point of view (most state web sites are useless to employers – they have reams of detail for workers on how to file claims or complaints, but nothing to help employers learn how it all works). oyote Background
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The president of the paper, Robert Decherd, asked me to run the "comp."
Benazir and Me 2007
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For example, newsgroups beginning with "comp." are about particular computer - related topics.
The Big Dummies' Guide to the Internet Version 2.0 : Chapter 3: Usenet I 1994
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These programs will also let you use programs posted in several Usenet newsgroups, such as comp. binaries.ibm.pc.
The Big Dummies' Guide to the Internet Version 2.0 : Chapter 9: Advanced E-Mail 1994
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And the "comp." who was entrusted with my copy, being obviously inspired of Satan, set out the heroine's response and the trade instruction in small type, 'thus, as if it had been a line of verse:
Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile David Christie Murray
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As you should with any other aspect of California business, assume that CA workers comp. is more expensive, more difficult, with more litigation land mines and more anti-business traps than most any other state you deal with).
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Contrast the form of the epithet "blue-haired," where the compound adjective is formed as if from a noun, "blue-hair": comp. "rushy-fringed," l.
Milton's Comus John Milton 1641
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