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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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In 2018, Mr. Doshi — who was known professionally as B.V.

From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2023

“Until supplies are restored in the world market, prices will not come down to normal levels,” said B.V.

From Reuters ● Jun. 15, 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

The girl's name was Maryam the Arab. form of Mary, also applied to the B.V. by Eastern Christians.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

Documents seen by AFP show that Mertiri and Zoto were the "de facto" owners of a Dutch-registered company, Integrated Energy BV SPV.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

The merger with Surfshark has positioned Cyberspace BV as one of the largest global VPN providers.

From Salon ● Dec. 12, 2025

Invention Works BV, trading as Silk'n, acknowledged the term "acne" constituted a medical claim.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2025

In investigating the ability of four machine learning models to predict BV in women with no symptoms, researchers say the accuracy varied among ethnicities.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 20, 2023

BV means bluish violet, being a violet having more blue than red in its composition.

From Color Value by C. R. (Chandler Robbins) Clifford

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 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

Most doleful thought: the sub- marine will be fouled bv ice formed on its rudders and hydroplanes, will be unable to maneuver, will be frozen into any hole she makes in the ice.

From Time Magazine Archive

Under the terms of the pending merger of Corrigan, McKinney with Republic Steel, Cleveland-Cliffs will bv a devious corporate route receive large blocks of Republic stock, of which it already holds more than 100,000 shares.

From Time Magazine Archive

We were all insignificant, dwarfed bv what his dream meant to Spanish Harlem.

From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez

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