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WO

abbr.
1. warrant officer
2. wideout
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wo

(wəʊ)
n, pl wos
an archaic spelling of woe

WO

abbreviation for
1. (Military) War Office
2. (Military) Warrant Officer
3. (Telecommunications) wireless operator
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WO

or W.O.,

Warrant Officer.

w/o

without.
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References in classic literature ?
When I was a hired-out shepherd in a solitary hut, not seeing no faces but faces of sheep till I half forgot wot men's and women's faces wos like, I see yourn.
You ain't looked slowly forward to this as I have; you wosn't prepared for this, as I wos. But didn't you never think it might be me?"
There is something like a distant ray of light in thy muttered reason for this: "He wos wery good to me, he wos!"
Pressed to fall back upon a nominative case, he opined that they wos about as red as ever red could be.
After some perplexed reflection, Sloppy answered, brightening, 'He called it something as wos wery long for spots.' Rokesmith suggested measles.
This article presents significant WOS data from more than 500 cases over a five-year span.
According to Lenovo, the Yoga C630 WOS features an integrated Snapdragon X20 LTE modem, which supports up to 1.2 Gigabits per second speeds on LTE Advanced Pro.
Arthur Langer, a professor of professional practice at Columbia University, founded WOS in 2005.
The 8-week course at McHenry County College was created by WOS, a nonprofit dedicated to helping veterans and others in underserved communities find jobs.
Win or lose it is always such a pleasure to read the views of the Western Mail and WOS team comprised of playing legends like Barry and Graham Price and veteran journalists like Andy Howell and Simon Thomas.
Of the more than 100 bibliometric databases, only WoS, Scopus (Elsevier, Netherlands), and PubMed (National Library of Medicine, United States) databases provide funding information for indexed articles.