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uy

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abbreviation

  1. Uruguay

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Example Sentences

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STRATEGY: Mitchell will b uy only companies in businesses he understands and thus favors consumer marketers.

From Forbes • Dec. 10, 2014

I've coached several times against the Soviets and never used the good-guy-vs.-bad-g uy approach.

From Time Magazine Archive

Felling a single four-foot tree with an indigenous stone axe would take uy hours—nearly three weeks of eight-hour days.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

But in the Obliquangled triangles, sei, and ruy, alike also, the diameters are proportionall to their homologall sides, to wit, ei and uy.

From The Way To Geometry by Bedwell, William

For from the end o, to wit, from the beginning of the Antecedent of the product, let the right line no, be drawne parallell to uy.

From The Way To Geometry by Bedwell, William