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EOW

American  

abbreviation

  1. end of watch: (used especially by law enforcement and the military to indicate on log sheets the end of a shift or watch.)

  2. end of watch: (used to mark the date a police officer was killed in the line of duty.)

  3. Business.  end of (work) week.

    The deadline for all marketing proposals is EOW—get them submitted by 5 p.m. this Friday or they will not be considered.


Example Sentences

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Beneath his name are the letters EOW, which stand for End of Watch, and the date he died - 1863.

From BBC

Long before he was the Durian King, Tan Eow Chong was canvassing rural Malaysia for plants he could farm when he stumbled on a roadside stand selling a curiously golden-fleshed variety of the fruit.

From Los Angeles Times

Openlice h� beo� alysede, �onne h� on manna gesih�e beo� ahredde, swa swa we nu eow rehton.

From Project Gutenberg

Drihten �a cw�� to his leorning-cnihtum, Ic secge eow to so�an, ��t �eos earme wydewe brohte maran l�c �onne �nig �yssera riccra manna.

From Project Gutenberg

Se H�lend cw�� on sumere stowe to his apostolum, "So� ic eow secge, Swa hw� swa syl� ceald w�ter drincan anum �urstigan menn ��ra �e on me gelyfa�, ne bi� his m�d forloren."

From Project Gutenberg