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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)

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The seven members - RM, Jimin, V, Suga, Jungkook, Jin and J-Hope - had all released solo material, to varying degrees of success.

From BBC Jul. 7, 2026

"Watch out!" said the band's leader RM, who recently sustained an ankle injury during rehearsals.

From BBC Apr. 9, 2026

A few months before, RM apologised profusely after his own honest livestream about the anxiety of reuniting and returning to the stage.

From BBC Apr. 8, 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 William Henry Giles Kingston

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 Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze) Barry

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 Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze) Barry

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 Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze) Barry

“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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

"Yes, I can see there may be a problem here, but I'll never type rm -r / while in root mode."

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

Notice that to uncompress, one uses gunzip, not gzip.            $ rm mysamplefile    Use this command to remove the file, since it was just to practice with.

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

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