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Tu

1 American  
Symbol,
  1. (formerly) thulium.


Tu. 2 American  

abbreviation

  1. Tuesday.


t.u. 3 American  

abbreviation

  1. trade union.


T.U. 4 American  

abbreviation

  1. toxic unit.

  2. Trade Union.

  3. Training Unit.


TU British  

abbreviation

  1. trade union

"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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Making an effort to present well is important, says Tu.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

The longest song on the album, “No Le Regales Tu Corazón,” manifested itself at 4:30 am while I was working on something else.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

“It’s all just happening at once: better products, longer range, more choices,” said Tu Le, a managing director at consultancy Sino Auto Insights.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 5, 2026

And foreign brands need to make "drastic decisions" that go beyond just product, said founder of Sino Auto Insights, Tu Le.

From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026

His name is John Tu, and he’s a self-made millionaire.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers

All six of the deceased were airlifted to T.U.

From New York Times ● Jul. 11, 2023

T.U., packed into the committee room to hear approvingly other witnesses defend the Dry cause.

From Time Magazine Archive

He got himself endorsed by the W. C. T.U. and the Anti-saloon League.

From Time Magazine Archive

Physicists at TU Dortmund University showed in January 2024 that a continuous time crystal could persist inside a semiconductor, with its oscillations remaining stable for hours.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

"Today, we can image tiny details on the atomic scale," says Philipp Haslinger from the Institute of Atomic and Subatomic Physics at TU Wien.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026

Researchers at Goethe University Frankfurt and TU Wien have now done that with a formula that can be worked out analytically, using what the scientists describe as essentially paper and pencil.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

At Kathmandu's TU Teaching Hospital, families of those missing in the floods wait anxiously for updates.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

TU QUOQUE.—Now you know the trick, suppose you take a canvas and see whether YOU can do it?

From Roundabout Papers by William Makepeace Thackeray

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