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• wo
  wo

  noun

  an archaic spelling of woe.
• WO
  WO

  wait order.
• w/o
  w/o

  abbreviation

  without.

wo

¹ American  

[woh] / woʊ /

noun

• wos
  plural

1. Archaic. an archaic spelling of woe.

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WO ² American  

Or W.O.

1. wait order.

2. War Office.

3. Warrant Officer.

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w/o ³ American  

abbreviation

1. without.

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WO ¹ British  

abbreviation

1. War Office

2. Warrant Officer

3. wireless operator

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w/o ² British  

abbreviation

1. without

2. written off

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wo ³ British  

/ wəʊ /

noun

1. an archaic spelling of woe

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• wos
  plural

Example Sentences

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wo WO w/o wos

"This method doesn't just give us a snapshot," said Professor Lucien Weiss from Polytechnique Montréal, wo co-led the research.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2025

The cyber criminals claim to have the private information of 20 million people wo signed up to Co-op's membership scheme, but the firm would not confirm that number.

From BBC ● May 2, 2025

The four plaintiffs in the case —t wo adolescents represented by their parents, and two adults— had begun treatments paid for by Medicaid.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2023

Of his 32 hits, he had seven doubles and seven homers to wo with 20 RBI.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2023

A few elaborate hand wo ven rugs fell onto the dirt.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

Wolbachia's prophage WO genes code for proteins that interfere with normal development of sperm cells.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 7, 2024

WO Halford concluded: "Speaking as a Falkland Islander, the veterans will never be forgotten for what they did for us as a community in 1982 - we will be forever grateful."

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2022

WO Halford left school at 16 and worked as a lifeguard at Port Stanley's swimming pool to save money to pay for a flight to Britain.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2022

Photograph taken with a WO FLT 132 refractor and QSI583wsg camera with 0.8x reducer/flattener.

From Forbes ● Jan. 9, 2015

WO of you—Lateef and Altaf—will recollect that more than a year ago you wrote to me saying that you were puzzled by certain questions which a Missionary had put to you.

From Notes on Islam by Khaja Muhammad Hussain

This level of heat is dangerous to anyone w/o proper hydration or adequate cooling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2024

“As one of the original organizing partners on “We Are the World,” w/o Ken’s expertise & specific skill set, we may never have made the enormous global impact that we did,” Jones tweeted.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 17, 2021

“I can say this w/o being a flag,” he told Feighan once.

From The Verge ● Aug. 10, 2021

One contained the patient’s name, describing him as “fully disabled” and “unable to sit/stand for more than 90 minutes w/o pain.”

From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2019

To complain that there is a problem w/o pointing out the problem has a rich and powerful vocabulary I do not feel is appropriate for this occasion.

From A Brief History of the Internet by Michael Hart

“Well, you see it wos me, and single-handed. Never a soul in it but my own self and Mr. Jaggers.”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

I 'old the sime a bloomin' shim An' clean agin the lors, Leastwyes it oughter be— If lors wos mide by me No toobs yer wouldn't see On 'appy 'Amstid.

From Mr. Punch's Cockney Humour by Various

In our lives we was werry beautiful, an’ in our deafs we wos not diwided.” 

From Cupid in Africa by P. C. Wren

"Those must ha' been nice times for the jolly young vatermen vich at Black friars wos used for to ply," chanted the Tinker; "but the steamers has put their noses out o' joint."

From Auriol or, The Elixir of Life by W. Harrison Ainsworth

We wos off all day, ’n’ she got lonesome like; but she ain’t gonter have ’em any more, ’cause she ain’t strong, ’n’ we kin take keer of her,” proudly.

From In Wild Rose Time by Amanda M. Douglas