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abbreviate
verb
To shorten by omitting parts or details.
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'abbreviate' is a correct word in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to making something shorter or briefer. Here is an example sentence: We need to abbreviate this document so that it is easier to read.
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Much of the coverage of the IoT (as some abbreviate it) has been of the "gee-whiz, isn't this great?" variety, and why not?
In January Han Weili, a professor at Fudan University in Shanghai, was attacked for inviting doctoral students to conduct research on China's Great Firewall (GFW, as Chinese users abbreviate it).
The firm's logo is all lower-case (pwc), but they ask journalists to write PwC, and they abbreviate it as such themselves.
Abroad, some development theorists have latched on to the idea as an alternative to the globalisers' creed of growth-oriented market economics.So a new set of initials GNH is now used to abbreviate a small academic industry.
How do you abbreviate Members of Parliament?
It is usual to write ∊ for "is a member of" and to abbreviate ∼(x ∊ y) to x ∉ y.
It is convenient to abbreviate the wff for "Exactly one thing is ϕ" to (∃!x)ϕx.
You'd have to abbreviate sportsdirect.com a bit to make it work, but how about this: "We are SD, super SD, no one likes us, we don't care".
Talk story about New Yorkers' tendency to abbreviate the names of sections of the city, like SOHO.
The now-shuttered Barfry had one of the more unfortunate handles in recent memory (it looked a little too close to an unfortunate symptom of food poisoning, not to mention "barfly"); Fr.og, intending to abbreviate "france origine," doesn't successfully co-opt the slur.
They abbreviate to keep listings down to one line Apostrophes and periods were eliminated long ago; no u's are used after q's.
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