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pos¹

  • /pɒz/ UK
  • /pɔz/ Australia, New Zealand
  • /pɑz/ US

adjective more pos · most pos

  1. UK, abbreviation, clipping, slang Clipping of positive I'm not absolutely pos on that, sir.
  2. alternative Alternative spelling of poz (“HIV positive”).
  3. abbreviation, clipping Clipping of possessive

pos²

  • /pəʊz/ UK
  • /poʊz/ US

noun

  1. plural plural of po

POS³

noun POSes · POSs

  1. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of proof of service
  2. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of peripheral oxygen saturation
  3. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of part of speech Eight POSs are defined in traditional English grammar: noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.
  4. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of point of sale or point of service
  5. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of proprietary operating system
  6. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of position and orientation system
  7. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable, vulgar, of a person or thing Initialism of piece of shit Unlimited technology from the whole universe, and we cruise 'round in a Ford P.O.S.
  8. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of Parinaud's oculoglandular syndrome

phrase

  1. Internet, abbreviation, initialism Initialism of parent over shoulder (i.e. observing the young user's conversation). Hang on, POS ... can you tell me about it later?

POs⁴

noun

  1. plural plural of PO

PoS⁵

noun PoSes · PoSs

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of part of speech It should be noted that there is not always a perfect match between the logically possible systems displayed above and the PoS systems actually encountered in the sample languages. As the data in the next sub-section will show, languages may display an additional PoS class from a ‘neighboring’ syste
  2. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of proof of stake

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: polonium, po river, poc, vpn, pov, psd, sales, ordering, pwd, sdp, outlet, sop, spd, yap, pvs, pds

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@misc{pos_2026,
  title = {pos},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pos},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}