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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.

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G.S. ² American  

Or g.s.

abbreviation

1. general secretary.

2. general staff.

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GS ¹ British  

abbreviation

1. General Secretary

2. General Staff

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gs ² British  

abbreviation

1. South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

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GS: Personal integrity in your work is so important, and that comes down to what you value as an artist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

GS: What’s your relationship with your other creative outlets, like painting and sculpting?

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

The Multistrada is typically shopped against the equally intrepid BMW R 1300 GS; and KTM’s 1390 Super Adventure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

That suggests the BOT will preserve an accommodative policy stance to support the still-subdued growth outlook, GS said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

I've wondered ever since whether GS based the choice upon the secular or the theological definition.

From Attrition by Roy G. Krenkel

Reitzell said some of the theories being floated as to what caused the avalanche, including the idea that the first group of skiers loosened “weak snow” during the initial runs down the black diamond G.S.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2024

"A heavy machine is being brought in from New Delhi to insert an evacuation pipe as the current one is being blocked by boulders," G.S.

From Reuters ● Nov. 15, 2023

The court in Kosovo’s capital, Pristina, handed down the ruling against the man, who was arrested in 2019 and was identified only by his initials G.S.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 5, 2021

“I had a bad feeling, given that the judge had left it to the last day of his tenure,” referring to Justice G.S.

From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2013

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

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

Until Medico Stapp came along with his cool scientist's insistence on using himself as guinea pig, fighter-planes were built to stand an expected stress of nine gs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Actually, I first called them “Hamma” and “Hampaw” because I was only three years old and couldn’t enunciate my gs.

From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles