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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

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He was rejected for a job at Goldman Sachs GS -0.00%increase; up pointing triangle out of college.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

It could also help bolster Beijing’s efforts to make the yuan a more internationally used currency within the dollar-dominated global financial system, GS said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

Beijing’s stated economic policy objectives include further growth in high-tech sectors to “build a manufacturing superpower” and “self-reliance” in key inputs and technologies, and increased internationalization of the renminbi, GS says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

GS: Remember who you are, Christian emo girl.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

GS Transcriber's Note: Original spelling varieties have not been standardized.

From Index to Kindergarten Songs Including Singing Games and Folk Songs by Various

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

In a civil complaint filed in California Superior Court, District Attorney Chesa Boudin accused the companies — G.S.

From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 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 wind hit his body with a force of 8,000 Ibs., and he felt deceleration of 40 gs, so that his organs weighed 40 times normal.

From Time Magazine Archive

Its screen records characters exactly the way you write them, helping me nail those pesky gs and 9s.

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

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