Co
cobalt.
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Co.abbreviationCompany.
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c/o
c/ocare of.
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C/o
C/ocare of.
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C/O
C/Ocash order.
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co-
co-variant of com- before a vowel, h, and gn: coadjutor; cohabit; cognate . The prefix co- now productively forms new words from bases beginning with any sound (co-conspirator; co-manage; coseismic ), sometimes with the derived sense “auxiliary, subsidiary” (coenzyme; copilot ), and, in mathematics and astronomy, with the sense “complement” (codeclination ).
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c.o.
c.o.abbreviationcare of.
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C.O.
C.O.abbreviationcash order.
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co
coabbreviationa commercial company (used with a country domain name)
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American
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co.
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Company.
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County.
c/o
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American
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care of.
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Bookkeeping. carried over.
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cash order.
C/o
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American
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care of.
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Bookkeeping. carried over.
C/O
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American
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cash order.
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certificate of origin.
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care of.
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carried over.
C.O.
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cash order.
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Commanding Officer.
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conscientious objector.
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correction officer.
CO
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Commanding Officer
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Commonwealth Office
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conscientious objector
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Colorado
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Colombia (international car registration)
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together; joint or jointly; mutual or mutually
coproduction
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indicating partnership or equality
cofounder
copilot
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to the same or a similar degree
coextend
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(in mathematics and astronomy) of the complement of an angle
cosecant
codeclination
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(esp in names of business organizations) Company
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informal and the rest of them
Harold and co
c/o
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care of
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accounting carried over
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a commercial company (used with a country domain name)
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Colombia
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Etymology
Origin of co-
from Latin, reduced form of com-
Example Sentences
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In fact, one in five Black households in America is located in one of these “food deserts,” where people don’t have access to fresh ingredients, according to the consulting firm McKinsey & Co.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
It has also been expanding sales of its Zeekr and Lynk & Co brands in Europe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Keely Hodgkinson powered to victory in a custom-made full-body speed suit before being presented with a Tiffany & Co crown as Athlos made its London debut.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Iger just stepped down after two runs heading the Walt Disney Co.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
Need location of publisher: Silver Burdett and Co.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
Images of Air Force One parked at the Turkish airport show vehicles labeled with the logo of a catering company called Turkish DO & CO.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Pennington's hometown was Glendale, Kentucky, and he was assigned to the 1st Space Battalion, 1st Space Brigade out of Fort Carson, CO.
From Barron's ● Mar. 10, 2026
“What Eric voted for was a resolution to condemn a horrific antisemitic attack in Boulder, CO that killed Karen Diamond, an 82-year old grandmother,” a campaign spokesman said in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2026
“When you get a chance can you give me an update on the status of the 10 CO conspirators?” the email reads.
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2025
“In short, if fighting breaks out, everyone must act on CO . his own initiative in order to complete the operation.”
From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin
Sony Pictures Entertainment, A24 and the New York Times Co. are among the potential suitors looking to buy the cinephile social network Letterboxd.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Walt Disney Co. reported a 6% bump in revenue and 21% boost in segment operating income during its fiscal third quarter earnings call on Wednesday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund is set to contribute $10 billion while the Qatar Investment Authority and Abu Dhabi’s L’imad Holding Co. will separately add $7 billion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
It shows the company, Zhengzhou Zhirong Network Technology Co., or ZRON, offering a menu of sensitive data that is presented as coming from the government email systems of China’s rivals and friends alike.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
An old school friend of his worked at a place called Oppenheimer and Co. and was making good money.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
By filling out a form online or downloading the claim form and then mailing it to Facebook Consumer Privacy User Profile Litigation, c/o Settlement Administrator, 1650 Arch Street, Suite 2210, Philadelphia, PA 19103.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2023
From lesser-known labels such as Vetements, Off-White c/o Virgil Abloh and Yang Li to global companies such as Dries Van Noten, Rick Owens, Prada and Maison Margiela, luxury now comes with unfinished hems.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 7, 2015
Contact Getting Around at [email protected] or c/o the Chicago Tribune, 435 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60611; on Twitter @jhilkevitch; and at facebook.com/jhilkevitch.
From Chicago Tribune ● Dec. 14, 2014
Write to them c/o King Features Syndicate, 300 W. 57th St., 15th floor, New York, NY 10019, or via their website: .
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2012
You may return expense advance to Lovelace Foundation c/o me.
From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson
As I have only four weeks in which to complete my work here and get to London a 'collect reply by cable to C/o Colonel Sellheim, Australian Intermediate Base, Cairo, would greatly oblige.
From Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 by Sir Ian Hamilton
The box was a gift from Felix Hoffmann, chief curator at C/O Berlin gallery, which he made in 2013.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2015
His personal project, Anniversaries, will be exhibited at C/O Berlin from June 20 to August 16.
From Time ● Jun. 5, 2015
Freeze frame … the C/O Gallery focuses on photography.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 17, 2011
A decade later, the scene has since caught up — though C/O remains at the epicenter, having shown the likes of Robert Frank and Nan Goldin.
From New York Times ● Dec. 26, 2010
C/O was thus founded to rectify Berlin’s undervaluing of art photography.
From New York Times ● Dec. 26, 2010
“Happy Father’s Day to my baby daddy and rad co- parent,” she captioned a pair of family photos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2025
The Bad Boy Records co- founder waved to his supporters as he appeared in court again on Thursday.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2025
He added, "We are committed to advancing our efforts to transform the prospect of a universal treatment, capable of controlling co- and serial infections of respiratory viruses and bacteria, into a reality."
From Science Daily ● Mar. 18, 2024
“The Yamnaya are extraordinary,” says the study’s co- author Volker Heyd, an archaeologist at the University of Helsinki.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 3, 2023
NOTE.—The forms co-, col-, com-, and cor-, are euphonic variations of con-.
From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton
It seemed significant that our hero came clean about killing his c.o., the darkest element of Don Draper’s origin story, after initially lying about his rank.
From Slate ● May 11, 2015
He emphasized that his c.o. ideas remained unchanged.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had said that his "humanitarian beliefs" forbade him to bear arms, but lost an appeal to the President for classification as a c.o.
From Time Magazine Archive
But last week Florida educational authorities were comparably steamed up about a c.o. teacher.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Selective Service Act makes it unmistakably clear that no one is to be exempted from the draft as a c.o. unless he holds to a "belief in a relation to a Supreme Being."
From Time Magazine Archive
Alec Ginsberg, a fourth-generation pharmacist who owns C.O.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
Instead, it was “so many people screaming, screaming to talk to each other. Screaming for assistance: ‘Yo, C.O., my toilet flooded.
From Slate ● May 19, 2025
“Bud” Adams Jr.; television executive and producer Roone Arledge; longtime Oilers/Titans scout C.O.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 7, 2022
“A C.O. had told me that I was never going home and that really got to me,” he said of one occasion.
From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2021
Permission for flight obtained from C.O. and I had made 4 successful night landings, 3 on simulated flare path, immed. previous to departure.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
This was supposed to be the Netherlands' time, as Johan Cruyff and co dazzled throughout the tournament with their revolutionary Total Football approach.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Vinicius Jr. and co topped Group C - knocking out Scotland in the process - but were unconvincing on the one occasion they were truly tested, drawing 1-1 with Morocco in their opening fixture.
From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026
It will be close, but I am going for Eli Junior Kroupi and co to edge this.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026
The work was co led by Henn and Simon Gravel of McGill University.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 26, 2026
“Down co the sty to slop the hogs,” Grandma called back.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
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