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abbreviation
abbreviationnounCollocations from the corpusActivator 1Word sets 1Other dictionary examplesCorpus examplesabbreviationabbreviationsabbreviationab‧bre‧vi‧a‧tion /E™EŒbriE?viEˆeE?EƒE™n/
noun1[countable]SHORT/NOT LONG
a short form of a word or expressionabbreviation of/for
�Dr’ is the written abbreviation of �Doctor’.bewriteRegisterIn everyday English, people usually say be short for instead of be the abbreviation of/for: W.H.O. is short for �World Health Organization’.be2[uncountable]SHORT/NOT LONGthe act of abbreviating something