MWU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Regional Maccabiah Games, organized by the MWU, are also held throughout the world.
ref: 1996, David Levinson, Karen Christensen, editors, Encyclopedia of World Sport: From Ancient Times to the Present, Oxford University Press, published 1999, →ISBN, page 232:
text: 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.”
ref: 2001, Jewish Cultural Celebrations and Competitions in Mandatory Palestine, 1920-1947: Body, Beauty, and the Search for Authenticity, page 118:
text: 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.
ref: 2012, John Nauright, Charles Parrish, editors, Sports Around the World: History, Culture, and Practice, ABC-Clio, →ISBN, page 365:
glosses: Initialism of Maccabi World Union.
examples: text: Merriam-Webster will need to incorporate some changes in MWU to take full advantage of its new online environment.
ref: 2002, Reference Books Bulletin, 2001-2002: A Compilation of Evaluations September 2001 Through August 2002, →ISBN, page 27:
text: 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).
ref: 2015, Philip Sisson, Julie Ryan, “What do we Know? Building a Knowledge Concept map”, in Andrea Garlatti, Maurizzio Massaro, editors, Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Knowledge Management, ECKM 2015, The University of Udine, Italy, 3-4 September 2015, Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited, →ISBN, page 1029:
text: In MWU, -less words are transcribed with /lɪs/ (e.g. pointless /ˈpɔɪnt.lɪs/).
ref: 2020, Konrad Szcześniak, Andrzej Porzuczek, Transcription Practice for the International Phonetic Alphabet: Exercises for Students of English, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, page 94:
glosses: Initialism of Merriam-Webster Unabridged, edition of Webster's Dictionary.
examples: text: VT was supported by MWU’s start-up funds.
ref: 2020, Dominik D. Kaltenbach, Dinesh Jaishankar, Meng Hao, Jacob C. Beer, Michael V. Volin, Umesh R. Desai, Vaibhav Tiwari, “Sulfotransferase and Heparanase: Remodeling Engines in Promoting Virus Infection and Disease Development”, in Shibashish Giri, Chandravanu Dash, editors, Epigenetic Approaches in Drug Discovery, Development and Treatment, Frontiers Media, page 35:
text: 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.
ref: 2021, Karen J. Nichols, Physician Leadership: The 11 Skills Every Doctor Needs to be an Effective Leader, Wiley, →ISBN, page 212:
text: 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.
ref: 2021, “Editors”, in Jason H. Byrd, Patricia Norris, Nancy Bradley-Siemens, editors, Veterinary Forensic Medicine and Forensic Sciences, CRC Press:
glosses: Initialism of Midwestern University.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1995, E. J. Verwey, editor, New Dictionary of South African Biography, volume 1, HSRC Publishers, →ISBN, page 99:
text: In October 1938, a new organization, the Reformers’ Organization, or Reformers, was founded within the MWU.
ref: 2005, Wessel P. Visser, “Urbanization and Afrikaner Class Formation: The Mine Workers’ Union and the Search for a Cultural Identity”, in Steven J. Salm, Toyin Falola, editors, African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective, University of Rochester Press, →ISBN, page 144:
text: 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.
ref: 2021, Danelle van Zyl-Hermann, Privileged Precariat: White Workers and South Africa’s Long Transition to Majority Rule, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 198:
glosses: Initialism of Mine Workers’ Union, predecessor of Solidarity (South African trade union).