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RM

1 American  
rm. 2 American  

abbreviation

rms plural
  1. ream.

  2. room.


r.m. 3 American  

abbreviation

  1. reichsmark.


RM 1 British  

abbreviation

  1. Royal Mail

  2. Royal Marines

  3. (in Canada) Rural Municipality

  4. Madagascar (international car registration)

"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

rm 2 British  

abbreviation

  1. ream

  2. room

"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

Etymology

Origin of RM

(sense 4) From R(epublic of) M(adagascar)

Example Sentences

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"I don't have any real sense of what this album's supposed to be," said RM as recording sessions played out, arguing that "there's a level of authenticity we need to have here".

From BBC Jul. 7, 2026

"Namjoon for Prime Minister," added a third, with a picture of RM superimposed on a British flag.

From BBC Jul. 7, 2026

She loved the music, but she also loved the seven members – RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, V, Jimin and Jungkook – whom she says she found "very genuine".

From BBC Jun. 21, 2026

RM, the member who speaks the most fluent English, appears frustrated as he’s tasked with writing many of these lyrics, and Nguyen captures this struggle as well.

From Salon Mar. 27, 2026

Of the naval brigade, Lieutenant Hay, RN, was wounded in the hand, and Lieutenant Stirling, RM, severely in the leg.

From Our Sailors Gallant Deeds of the British Navy during Victoria's Reign by Kingston, William Henry Giles

She would cut out the moth-balls, even at the expense of having her clothes ruined, if the r.m. would swear off on musk and the like.

From The Little Colonel's Chum: Mary Ware by Barry, Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze)

Me with my Puritan conscience and big bump of order, and my r.m. calmly embroidering this Sabbath afternoon!

From The Little Colonel's Chum: Mary Ware by Barry, Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze)

So she filled all the drawers and wardrobes with those nasty camphor moth-balls, which the r.m. couldn't endure, and when she protested, Margaret offered a compromise.

From The Little Colonel's Chum: Mary Ware by Barry, Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze)

“I wanted a little bit lower trajectory, and especially with these courses being really fi rm, less loft was better to get the ball running,” she says.

From Golf Digest Jan. 8, 2020

Among them is Rick Moonen, former chef of New York City's Oceana, who recently opened a new seafood restaurant called rm.

From Time Magazine Archive

From the Denver Post: "New Ig Iv rm, frpl, 2 bdrm, Ig kt, exp attic cel gar."

From Time Magazine Archive

If the directory contains files, you must    delete those files first, or alternatively you can use rm -r in place of    rmdir.            cd ..

From Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage by Goerzen, John

"On Unix, rm -r /usr will nuke everything in the usr filesystem."

From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.

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