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OBE¹

proper noun

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Office of Bilingual Education
  2. US, abbreviation, historical, initialism Initialism of Office of Business Economics, now BEA.
  3. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Oregon Board of Education
  4. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Ottawa Board Of Education

noun OBEs

  1. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of Officer of the Order of the British Empire
  2. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of operating-basis earthquake
  3. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of out-of-body experience
  4. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of outcome-based education
  5. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of one big explanation For this government, the OBE for our economic troubles was first Covid, then Ukraine.
  6. abbreviation, countable, humorous, initialism, uncountable Initialism of out-of-buggy experience

adjective

  1. abbreviation, initialism, not comparable Initialism of overcome / overtaken by events (i.e., now obsolete).

obe²

noun obes

  1. historical A particular subdivision of ancient Laconia. It is probably that the τριακάδες represented ultimate division of the people, like the γένη of Attica; but it is difficult to see how such generic divisions could have born any relation to the local division of the obe.

obe³

noun

  1. obsolete, uncountable Obsolete form of obeah

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@misc{obe_2026,
  title = {obe},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/obe},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}