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  • CZ
    CZ
    abbreviation
    Canal Zone (approved especially for use with zip code).
  • C.Z.
    C.Z.
    abbreviation
    Canal Zone.
  • cz
    cz
    abbreviation
    Czech Republic

CZ

1 American  

abbreviation

  1. Canal Zone (approved especially for use with zip code).


C.Z. 2 American  

abbreviation

  1. Canal Zone.


CZ 1 British  

abbreviation

  1. the Czech Republic (international car registration)

"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

cz 2 British  

abbreviation

  1. Czech Republic

"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

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The inquiry puts the world’s largest crypto exchange back in the legal spotlight after its founder Changpeng Zhao, known as CZ, received a pardon from President Trump in October.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026

The pardon caps a monthslong effort by Zhao, a billionaire commonly known as CZ in the crypto world and one of the biggest names in the industry.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2025

Mr. Zhao, who goes by his initials, CZ, pleaded guilty to the charge last month as part of a wide-ranging settlement of several interlocking investigations into Binance by the federal government.

From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2023

CSG declined to comment on the Colt CZ offer.

From Reuters ● Nov. 23, 2023

If TZ is to the right of CZ, C.E. is East.

From Lectures in Navigation by Ernest Gallaudet Draper

Olsen: And now to start talking about “Feud,” the group of women that the show is about — Babe Paley, who you play, but also C.Z.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2024

Four major law firms are representing Binance and Mr. Zhao, better known as C.Z., in the litigation in Washington.

From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2023

Among her other roles include her Emmy-nominated turn as deputy district attorney Miriam Grasso in “Murder One” and Capt. C.Z.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2023

As much as his pages promoted socialites such as Nan Kempner, Mercedes Bass, Gloria Vanderbilt, C.Z.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 28, 2015

During the early evening he lay on his back in a stout Mission rocking-chair on the front porch of House 35, Empire, C.Z.

From Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers by Harry Alverson Franck

This equation can be expressed as ax + by + cz + d = 0, where d = −ax0 − by0 − cz0.

From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016

The Bohemian cz is equivalent to the English ch in check; so in their national name, Czekhes.

From Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations by Therese Albertine Louise von Jacob Robinson

English Sounds. c ts ch h cz ch rz r followed by the French j sz sh szcz shch w v ż j In this transliteration ch retains its ordinary English sound.

From The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz

C or cz is pronounced as English ts; cs as English ch; ds as English j; zs as French j; gy as dy.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" by Various

The combination cz, for instance, corresponds to our ch, and the Polish cognomen Czajkowski becomes much less exasperating when spelled, as it would be in English, "Chycovsky."

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 by Various

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