AMS

¹ American

Agricultural Marketing Service.

A.M.S. ² American

abbreviation

Army Medical Staff.

AMS British

abbreviation

Additional Member System: a voting system in which some candidates are elected for geographic constituencies and others are elected by proportional representation using party lists. The voter has two votes: one for a party and the other for a candidate in a constituency

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BAE Systems and AMS Integrated Solutions signed an agreement on Monday to provide repair services for artillery systems donated to Ukraine by the British government.

From Washington Times • Dec. 19, 2023

Traces of such events are found on Earth or the Moon and can be detected using accelerator mass spectrometry, or AMS for short.

From Science Daily • Nov. 2, 2023

The 29 returned to AMS, this time driven by grand marshal Richard Childress, 77, who was the team owner for Harvick in 2001.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 9, 2023

AMS Accountants Group was appointed after long-standing auditors Johnston Carmichael quit last September, though it was not made public by the party until this year.

From BBC • Jul. 7, 2023

There are not two I AMS, but one I am.

From The Hidden Power And Other Papers upon Mental Science by Troward, T. (Thomas)

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