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Co

1 American  
Symbol, Chemistry.
  1. cobalt.


CO 2 American  

abbreviation

  1. Colorado (approved especially for use with zip code).

  2. commanding officer.

  3. conscientious objector.


Co. 3 American  
Or co.

abbreviation

  1. Company.

  2. County.


c/o 4 American  
  1. care of.

  2. Bookkeeping. carried over.

  3. cash order.


C/o 5 American  
  1. care of.

  2. Bookkeeping. carried over.


C/O 6 American  
  1. cash order.

  2. certificate of origin.


co- 7 American  
  1. 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 ).


c.o. 8 American  

abbreviation

  1. care of.

  2. carried over.


C.O. 9 American  

abbreviation

  1. cash order.

  2. Commanding Officer.

  3. conscientious objector.

  4. correction officer.


CO 1 British  

abbreviation

  1. Commanding Officer

  2. Commonwealth Office

  3. conscientious objector

  4. Colorado

  5. Colombia (international car registration)

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co- 2 British  

prefix

  1. together; joint or jointly; mutual or mutually

    coproduction

  2. indicating partnership or equality

    cofounder

    copilot

  3. to the same or a similar degree

    coextend

  4. (in mathematics and astronomy) of the complement of an angle

    cosecant

    codeclination

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Co 3 British  

abbreviation

  1. (esp in names of business organizations) Company

  2. informal and the rest of them

    Harold and co

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c/o 4 British  

abbreviation

  1. care of

  2. accounting carried over

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co 5 British  

abbreviation

  1. a commercial company (used with a country domain name)

  2. Colombia

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Co 6 British  

symbol

  1. cobalt

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Co 7 British  

abbreviation

  1. County

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Etymology

Origin of co-

from Latin, reduced form of com-

Example Sentences

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