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Co

//kəʊ// name, noun, pron, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Abbreviation of Colorado: a state of the United States. abbreviation, alt-of
Noun
  1. 1
    Abbreviation of county. abbreviation, alt-of
  2. 2
    Clipping of company. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial
  3. 3
    Abbreviation of company, alternative form of Co.. abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable
  4. 4
    one who refuses to serve in the armed forces on grounds of conscience wordnet
  5. 5
    Initialism of commanding officer. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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  1. 6
    Abbreviation of county, alternative form of Co.. abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable

    "Under McGlinchey's leadership, the INLA committed several atrocities and murders during the Troubles, resulting in the Co Derry native's imprisonment both north and south of the border."

  2. 7
    a hard ferromagnetic silver-white bivalent or trivalent metallic element; a trace element in plant and animal nutrition wordnet
  3. 8
    Initialism of commissioned officer. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  4. 9
    Abbreviation of cotton. abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable
  5. 10
    an odorless very poisonous gas that is a product of incomplete combustion of carbon wordnet
  6. 11
    Initialism of corrections officer. US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  7. 12
    Initialism of correctional officer. US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  8. 13
    Initialism of conscientious objector. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  9. 14
    Initialism of clothing optional. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  10. 15
    Initialism of common-offset method. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  11. 16
    Abbreviation of cutoff. abbreviation, alt-of
Pronoun
  1. 1
    Gender-neutral subject pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she. gender-neutral, nonstandard, singular, third-person

    "Co consistently does less than cos share of the Community work. 4. Co absents coself from the Community for more than three weeks [...]"

  2. 2
    Gender-neutral object pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns him and her. gender-neutral, nonstandard, singular, third-person
Verb
  1. 1
    Abbreviation of cast on. abbreviation, alt-of

Etymology

Coined by feminist writer Mary Orovan in 1970; in common usage in intentional communities of the Federation of Egalitarian Communities.

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