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  • GS
    GS
    General Schedule (referring to the Civil Service job classification system).
  • G.S.
    G.S.
    abbreviation
    general secretary.
  • gs
    gs
    abbreviation
    South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

GS

1 American  
  1. General Schedule (referring to the Civil Service job classification system).

  2. general staff.

  3. German silver.


G.S. 2 American  
Or g.s.

abbreviation

  1. general secretary.

  2. general staff.


GS 1 British  

abbreviation

  1. General Secretary

  2. General Staff

"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

gs 2 British  

abbreviation

  1. South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

"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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GS maintains its oil-price forecast of $80 per barrel for Brent in 4Q, although the price can go even higher given renewed U.S.-Iran military strikes and potential for a new bottleneck in the Red Sea.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

GS also expects memory suppliers to expand long-term agreements with clients to enhance demand visibility and make more efficient capex plans.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 1, 2026

Previously, GS was forecasting 6.70 twelve months out.

From MarketWatch May 11, 2026

Goldman Sachs is raising $13 billion for its ninth GS Mezzanine Partners fund.

From Barron's Apr. 8, 2026

GS and twenty-seven cursives named by Scholz: those of the ῥήματα from Codd.

From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose

It occurred at about 9:30 a.m. above the G.S.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 10, 2024

The nomination of individuals for the board does not speak well of their independence, Justice G.S.

From Reuters Oct. 26, 2021

“It’s as much about the law as it is about the optics,” says G.S.

From Seattle Times Sep. 1, 2021

In an email, Mr. Mathews said he was “extremely proud to be able to call G.S. home for the last 20 years.”

From New York Times Mar. 5, 2021

We know that the title was “Chief of the Cryptographic and Physical Security Unit,” and that the position was graded G.S.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

“It was 3.2 gs, man,” Norris Burkes, a passenger on Flight 8535, told Answer Man.

From Washington Post Mar. 30, 2019

An automobile suspension is designed to withstand forces of about two gs as it smooths out the bumps in the road.

From New York Times Aug. 22, 2014

The men at the mahogany desks," says Stapp, "thought that the human body would never take more than 18 gs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Somewhere along his rise from sewer worker to political boss of Chicago, Edward Joseph Kelly learned not to drop his gs, acquired a hard, shining polish.

From Time Magazine Archive

Oh, I was a bossy little thing, even though I couldn’t pronounce my gs properly!

From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles

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