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    WM
    white male.
  • Wm.
    Wm.
    abbreviation
    William.
  • w/m
    w/m
    (in shipping) weight and/or measurement.

WM

1 American  
  1. white male.


Wm. 2 American  

abbreviation

  1. William.


w/m 3 American  
  1. (in shipping) weight and/or measurement.


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For Waste Management’s WM Recycling unit, automation is viewed as the key to extracting more profit by slashing labor costs.

From Barron's Jun. 17, 2026

Four years ago, amid soaring postpandemic inflation, WM decided to let 5,000 to 7,000 jobs companywide go unfilled after resignations and retirements.

From Barron's Jun. 17, 2026

Speaking to BBC Radio WM, the leader of the council, John Cotton, said an evaluation of job roles had highlighted some that had "clearly been not graded correctly under previous arrangements".

From BBC Mar. 11, 2026

The company, which goes by WM, reported an 18% increase in third-quarter profit in its recycling processing and sales segment despite commodity prices being 35% lower than a year earlier.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 7, 2026

I preferred Walter Myers for the most logical reason: If you wrote out the initials WM and turned them upside down, they were still WM.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers

Councilman Jim Graham contacted the cemetery to report that he had been given a skull in a tin box with the words “Hon. Wm. Wirt” painted on it, The Post’s Peter Carlson reported.

From Washington Post Oct. 21, 2018

Displayed prominently were a number of plays and poems written by "Wm. Shaksper."

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

Examples:—Az., bezantée, for Wm. de la Zouche: Or, on a fesse gu. three plates, for Roger de Huntingfield: Arg., ten torteaux, four, three, two, one, for Alex.

From The Handbook to English Heraldry by R. B. Utting

Sir Wm. de Berkeroles—Az., a chevron between three crescents or.

From The Handbook to English Heraldry by R. B. Utting

Wm., a letter of, 236 Advice of J. H. P. to S. M. P., 132 A hero of 1776—Col.

From Memoir of John Howe Peyton in sketches by his contemporaries, together with some of his public and private letters, etc., also a sketch of Ann M. Peyton by Various

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