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abbreviation for (in Britain)

Office for National Statistics

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Words nearby ONS

on-ramp, on-record, on relief, on request, onrush, ONS, Onsager, on sale, on schedule, on-screen, on-seam

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How to use ONS in a sentence

There are stands for mod collections and add-ons to change the appearance or draw of regulated and advanced vaporizers.
This Is Your E-Cigarette on Drugs|Daniel Genis|July 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
We know his gestures, his tics, his pet peeves, and his turn-ons.
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Strap-ons, T-injections, and lesbian sex parties—young male adventures have come a long way from Huckleberry Finn.
A New Huck on the Hardcore LGBT Hudson|William O’Connor|June 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
There are walk-ons from Yves Saint Laurent (“Once you got to know him, you got to know everyone, his circle was so small”).
Edmund White: Sex, Success, and Survival|Tim Teeman|February 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST

The aggressive come-ons lure crowds that can turn violent and frenzied.
Send in the Drones? Retailers Ruined This Christmas|Daniel Gross|December 26, 2013|DAILY BEAST
If one comes others may come, and indeed I never saw such behaviour, no, not in a den of li-ons!
Mushroom Town|Oliver Onions
"Only a quack medical concern looking for a stall to impress their come-ons," explained Waldemar.
Average Jones|Samuel Hopkins Adams
He'd tried one of the simplest come-ons, and there had been too much of a pause.
Sense from Thought Divide|Mark Irvin Clifton
What has made thy heart so sore as to come and cry a-this-ons?
Lizzie Leigh|Elizabeth Gaskell
To this day he is, and for many ons to come he will be in spirit, the ruler and judge over Islam.
Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value|Arthur Glyn Leonard