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abbrev.

abbreviation

  1. abbreviation

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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OK, well one word and one abbrev.

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This is the first time I've ever heard of HQ as being anything but an abbrev. for headquarters.

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QuickType will predict and autocorrect differently once it learns that you are more formal in emails with your boss, and informal when texting with an abbrev.-loving friend.

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That’s part of the reason, for example, that the OED was just adding tweet in 2013, while ODO is today including TL;DR—an abbrev that may say more about these fragmented, hurried times than any other entry in the bunch.

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Verb. abbrev. cap. 27-29, 38-40.—Grandjean,

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