Cs
1 Americanabbreviation
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capital stock.
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civil service.
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chief of staff.
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Christian Science.
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Christian Scientist.
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Civil Service.
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Confederate States.
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Also: cs. capital stock
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chartered surveyor
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Christian Science
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Christian Scientist
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Civil Service
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Also: cs. Court of Session
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Example Sentences
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Only eight banks got Bs, while the majority got Cs; 36 got Ds.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 27, 2026
The 16-year-old hopes to get a minimum of five Cs, including maths and Welsh, to study for a Level 3 in agricultural engineering at Coleg Glynllifon.
From BBC • Aug. 20, 2025
"And by now, they would have found them. There would be plan Bs and plan Cs, to make sure that we have reduced this exposure to the US."
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2025
Utsunomiya continued, "because we knew that most of the Cs in CsMPs is fission derived, we thought that analysis of the pollucite could yield the first ever direct images of radioactive Cs atoms."
From Science Daily • May 15, 2024
He had been getting Cs and Ds, and college never felt like home, anyway.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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