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Meaning of MWU | Babel Free

Noun CEFR A2

Definitions

  1. Initialism of multi-word unit.
    abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  2. Initialism of Maccabi World Union.
    abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  3. Initialism of Merriam-Webster Unabridged, edition of Webster's Dictionary.
    abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  4. Initialism of Midwestern University.
    abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  5. Initialism of Mine Workers’ Union, predecessor of Solidarity (South African trade union).
    abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

Examples

“In a contrastive study we conducted recently (Silva 2006), we found that applying a simple n-gram tool such as the one used in the Corpógrafo to a bilingual corpus of comparable texts in Portuguese and in English allows the identification of significant MWUs or lexical bundles.”
“There are still cases when no additional information, whether extracted from MWU lemmas themselves or subsequently from electronic dictionaries, can help in deciding in favor of one inflectional class over other possibilities. For instance, this is the case for krem-karamel ‘caramel cream’ and kamen-temeljac ‘foundation stone’: both components in these MWUs are masculine inanimate nouns in the nominative singular, but in the first one karamel is the head and the first component does not inflect (super-class 2xn), while in the second example kamen is the head and both components inflect (super-class nxn).”
“The role of MWUs in processing should be made clearer by generally increased reading speeds over entire MWUs as compared to non-MWUs.”
“Regional Maccabiah Games, organized by the MWU, are also held throughout the world.”
“With this announcement he made a deceit of the agreement of MWU in Berlin, that says, “The Maccabiah is a world gathering of Hebrew sport in Eretz Israel.””
“Headquartered in Ramat Gan, Israel, the MWU is the central administrative entity representing the six affiliated global Maccabi confederations: Israel, Europe, North America, Latin America, South Africa, and Australia.”
“Merriam-Webster will need to incorporate some changes in MWU to take full advantage of its new online environment.”
“Known-valid addresses the degree of internal certainty or certitude – view, opinion, sentiment, persuasion, belief, conviction (MWU 2013-4: opinion, Synonym Discussion; MWD 2012-3: opinion) which may be expressed by propositional states such as feel, think, believe, and know (Atkinson 2015).”
“In MWU, -less words are transcribed with /lɪs/ (e.g. pointless /ˈpɔɪnt.lɪs/).”
“VT was supported by MWU’s start-up funds.”
“Add to this list my longtime friend Lori Kemper, DO, who later became an MWU dean and who also did and does mentor me still.”
“Since 2016, she has been a full-time assistant clinical professor of Shelter Medicine at MWU, teaching multiple classes but primarily third-year electives in shelter medicine and veterinary forensics and fourth-year shelter medicine rotations.”
“After the suspension in 1940 of MWU elections for the duration of the Second World War (1939–1945), the Hervormingsorganisasie concentrated on strengthening itself internally.”
“In October 1938, a new organization, the Reformers’ Organization, or Reformers, was founded within the MWU.”
“But in 2001 the MWU left its old mining stomping grounds when it relocated to rented office space in Centurion, a hub of white middle-class suburbia fast unfolding halfway between Johannesburg and Pretoria.”

CEFR level

A2
Elementary
This word is part of the CEFR A2 vocabulary — elementary level.

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