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.

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Example Sentences

E before a and o has the sound of y as a consonant; i before e and u has the same sound: thus, Earl = yarl; eow = you; iett = yett; and iúgoth = yúgoth, youth.

From Literature

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

Nu bidde ic eow ��t ge beon ge�yldige on eowerum ge�ance, o���t we �one traht mid Godes fylste oferr�dan magon.

From Project Gutenberg

Se wilda fola h�fde getacnunge ealles o�res folces, �e w�s �a-gyt h��en and ungetemed; ac h� wurdon getemede and geleaffulle �a�a Crist sende his leorning-cnihtas geond ealne middangeard, �us cwe�ende, "Fara� geond ealne middangeard, and l�ra� ealle �eoda, and fullia� h� on naman ��s F�der, and ��s Suna, and ��s Halgan Gastes; and beoda� ��t hi healdon ealle �a beboda �e ic eow t�hte."

From Project Gutenberg