abbreviation
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Sense: An abbreviated form
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acronym, initialism, contraction, abridgment, abridgement , shortening, sketch Collocations, précis, brief Collocations, abstract Collocations, curtailment, reduction Collocations, abstraction, condensation, outline Collocations, summary Collocations, elision, short form, clipped form, clipping, abbreviated version, abridged version, condensed version, synopsis, digest Collocations
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Sense: The act of abbreviating
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reducing, shortening, truncating, reduction Collocations, contraction, condensing, abridgment, abridgement , cutting Collocations, clipping, cutting out, cutting down, restriction, constriction, removing, taking out, truncation, editing, censoring, reshaping, pruning, lopping off, paring down, trimming, retrenchment, compression, foreshortening, telescoping, apocope, syncope, elision, cutting short, abridging, censorship, expurgation
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