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  • R/W
    R/W
    right of way.
  • R.W.
    R.W.
    abbreviation
    Right Worshipful.
  • RW
    RW
    abbreviation
    Right Worshipful
  • rw
    rw
    abbreviation
    Rwanda

R/W

1 American  
  1. right of way.


R.W. 2 American  

abbreviation

  1. Right Worshipful.

  2. Right Worthy.


RW 1 British  

abbreviation

  1. Right Worshipful

  2. Right Worthy

"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

rw 2 British  

abbreviation

  1. Rwanda

"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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Diverted to JFK, landed heavy on R/W 4L resulting in smoking, hot brakes causing two tires on each main gear to rupture.

From Fox News ● Sep. 25, 2018

Bob Mann, a former airline executive who runs his own consulting firm, R.W.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 10, 2025

“I believe that R.W. wasting the time, thereby disparaging HENLEY’s name and the Big U Enterprise’s reputation, and potentially flouting that disrespect with the lyrics of the ‘diss’ song, led to a dispute,” Roosa wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2025

Elliott is a South Carolina case named after Harry Briggs, one of 20 parents who brought a lawsuit against Clarendon County School Board President R.W.

From Seattle Times ● May 28, 2023

The companies must deliver on their earnings forecasts if they want to reassure investors, said Wes Golladay, an equity analyst at R.W.

From Reuters ● Apr. 19, 2023

Unquestionably the fundamental ideas had come into her mind at a much earlier period, when, for example, she was reading Mr. R.W.

From Critical Miscellanies (Vol 3 of 3) The Life of George Eliot by John Morley

RW Mathieu Olivier was back in the Blue Jackets lineup after being a healthy scratch the past two games.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 22, 2023

Steve Holt, head of international equity sales at investment bank RW Baird, said his clients were still wary of investing in Japan.

From Reuters ● Apr. 20, 2023

C Pontus Holmberg and RW Alex Steeves skated on the fourth line a day after being recalled from the Toronto Marlies of the AHL.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 7, 2023

Rangers RW Vitali Kravtsov went to the dressing room midway through the first period after being knocked down and into the boards by Lightning defenseman Victor Hedman.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 11, 2022

But mainstream figures in science and the military disdained RW as ineffective, impractical, and immoral.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

The sound of "v" they usually pronounce "b," while "r" resembles "w" or "rw" when initial, but as a final sound is usually suppressed.

From The Speech of Monkeys by Richard Lynch Garner

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