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  • b.v.
    b.v.
    abbreviation
    book value.
  • B.V.
    B.V.
    abbreviation
    Blessed Virgin.
  • BV
    BV
    abbreviation
    Beata Virgo
  • bv
    bv
    abbreviation
    Bouvet Island

b.v.

1 American  

abbreviation

  1. book value.


B.V. 2 American  

abbreviation

  1. Blessed Virgin.


B.V. 3 American  

abbreviation

  1. farewell.


BV 1 British  

abbreviation

  1. Beata Virgo

  2. bene vale

"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

bv 2 British  

abbreviation

  1. Bouvet Island

"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

Etymology

Origin of B.V.2

From Latin Beāta Virgō

Origin of B.V.3

From Latin bene valē

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Eurail B.V., a company that sells European rail passes, has a list of many anticipated disruptions by country.

From New York Times Feb. 28, 2023

"Malaysia is the biggest beneficiary from Indonesia's unpredictable policies," said B.V.

From Reuters May 11, 2022

Uber B.V., a Netherlands subsidiary of San Francisco-based Uber Technologies Inc., admitted breaching Australian Consumer Law by making false or misleading statements in its app, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said in a statement.

From Washington Times Apr. 26, 2022

Booking.com B.V. for Monday morning’s test run, likely because it’s a low-profile case argued by Lisa Blatt, a veteran of the Supreme Court bar.

From Slate May 4, 2020

Romans lit candles in the room of the puerpara; hence the goddess Candelifera, and the term Candelaria applied to the B.V.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 11 [Supplement] by Sir Richard Francis Burton

In 2022, Nord Security merged with Surfshark to form Cyberspace BV — one of the largest VPN conglomerates globally.

From Salon Mar. 27, 2026

The doctors stopped the study early when it became clear that BV recurrence was halved using this approach.

From BBC Mar. 6, 2025

While there are symptoms associate with BV, many people have no symptoms, making it difficult to diagnose.

From Science Daily Nov. 20, 2023

Ten days later, Rahim’s company, BV Management LLC, wrote a check for $17,500 payable to Jenkins with a memo line stating “Loan Proceeds.”

From Seattle Times Jun. 29, 2023

But as VC is to CD so is BV to DS.

From Treatise on Light by Christiaan Huygens

The same contract has been the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation by federal prosecutors in Miami looking into, among other things, whether Rivera failed to register as a foreign lobbyist as required bv law.

From Seattle Times Aug. 20, 2022

The planes, with a longer range, better radar and a more effective fire-control system than earlier MIG-21s flown bv Eevotians. are based at Cairo West, Beni Suef, Aswan, Mansura and Inshahs.

From Time Magazine Archive

The number of pieces a State may exhibit is determined by its population rather than bv the number of good painters in it.

From Time Magazine Archive

To finance housing, roads, utilities, Belgian Congo will float $15 million bond issue in U.S. through Dillon, Read & Co., first such Wall Street public offering: bv any African colony since World War II.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Aw, don’t cry,” Mr. Robichaux pleaded, completely confused bv the tragic turn the evening was apparently taking.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

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