Fo
noun
Fo
1 American
[foh, faw]
/ foʊ, fɔ /
fo.
2
American
abbreviation
FO
3
American
abbreviation
Baseball.
F.O.
4
American
abbreviation
-
field officer.
-
foreign office.
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Military. forward observer.
FO
1
British
abbreviation
-
army Field Officer
-
air force Flying Officer
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Foreign Office
-
Faeroe Islands (international car registration)
Fo
2
British
/ fəʊ /
noun
fo.
3
British
abbreviation
fo
4
British
abbreviation
Etymology
Origin of FO
(for sense 4) from Faeroese Fōroyar
Example Sentences
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Fo Guang Shan advocates the three acts of goodness: Do good deeds, say good words, and have good thoughts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2023
He established Fo Guang Shan monastery in 1967, aiming to propagate Buddhist humanitarian values.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 2023
The crowd went wild with joy at the palace plaza when, for the first time, the Kwifor declared his new names: Fo Fru Asa-ah Ndefru Angwafor IV.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2022
Robbins invited Fo to see the show, and he accepted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2022
D i s co m f It/d I s co m Fo RT.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
It begins on fo. 9b2 as follows:—'Treching breath annso.
From The Triads of Ireland by Kuno Meyer
He would give the ball a stroke *LL. fo. 62b. with the hurl-bat, so that he sent it a long distance from him.
From The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge by Joseph Dunn
Repertory 6, fo. 20b; Letter Book N, fo.
From London and the Kingdom - Volume I by Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson) Sharpe
On the 26th October of this year the Court of Aldermen directed a narrative to be drawn up of what had taken place in the Common Council on the preceding day.—Id., fo. 313b.
From London and the Kingdom - Volume II by Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson) Sharpe
Book G, fo. 247b.—The money was advanced on the security of Exchequer bills.
From London and the Kingdom - Volume I by Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson) Sharpe
"Parents have, so to speak, taken power over the schools and started reporting things. Except that not everything they report is necessarily accurate," said Carla Bonnet of the FO union.
From BBC ● May 25, 2026
“The laboratory analysis and the totality of the circumstantial evidence available established an association between one portion of these remains and FO Rinke,” the profile states.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2023
"I'm not sure there'll be other protests afterwards," Jean-Claude Mailly, the former leader of the FO union said.
From Reuters ● Jun. 6, 2023
“The FO office should call some of us to ask why we have to do this. I love this club.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2022
Since PO-PD = LO, and AO-AD = FO, this curve is one branch of the hyperbola of which D and O are the foci.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891 by Various
“In comparison to local biofuels such as corn ethanol, cane ethanol from Brazil has a much lower carbon footprint,” said F.O.
From Reuters ● Dec. 3, 2018
In this ambitious, idea-packed study of midcentury American literature, Greif recovers a cultural discourse that feels like a lost tongue: the exorbitant claims made for the novel by critics like Lionel Trilling, F.O.
From Slate ● Nov. 30, 2015
Guests would spend a night at his hotel - built in Estes Park by businessman F.O.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 27, 2015
The surplus may be smaller than the 5.8 million tons this season, Stefan Uhlenbrock, senior commodity analyst at F.O.
From BusinessWeek ● Feb. 28, 2012
"And do you mean to tell me they are such infernal fools at F.O. that they 're going to pay one thousand pounds sterling to liberate this scamp St. John?"
From Paul Gosslett's Confessions in Love, Law, and The Civil Service by Charles James Lever
He’s relied on Morris as well as others in the recovery community fo guidance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2024
Following Erkan’s appointment, the bank has raised its key rate a series fo time: by an aggressive 7.5 percentage points in August, 2.5 percentage points in July and 6.5 percentage points in June.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2023
There have also been discussions on the word "fo" which has a literal meaning/translation of "his", but the main concerns lay with the "byd gwyn" literal translation.
From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2023
Last year, the wideout played in just five games and logged only six catches fo 27 yards.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 11, 2022
I said, “How come Herman E. Calloway never called on me and my mother? All he’d’ve had fo do was call on us one time and I know she wouldn’t have been so sad.”
From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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