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    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

Example Sentences

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The idea is to ensure that the seat – and passenger – would survive a brief exposure to 16 g’s.

From BBC • Sep. 5, 2024

For people, an impact of about 135 g’s produces a concussion.

From Scientific American • Jul. 14, 2022

It seems like they were planning for some kind of outcry here so that they could quickly replace these g’s, because none of the other letters have this.

From Slate • Aug. 13, 2021

The facility, known as nastar, features a massive centrifuge that spins at about sixty miles an hour, creating gravitational loads that can exceed nine g’s.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 13, 2018

At 1000 g’s, the beam is still straight, but trees have become squashed and flattened; at 100,000 g’s, rocks are crushed by their own weight.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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