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APEC

"APEC" is a common misspelling or typo for: apace, ape, aped, apex, apiece, aspect, aspic, pace, spec.


Specialty Definition: APEC

DomainDefinition

Agriculture

Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: APEC

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

APEC

EnglishAll Purpose Electronic ComputersN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Commercial Usage: APEC

DomainTitle

Books

  • Assessing Apec's Progress: Trade, Ecotech & Institutions: A Project of the Apec International Assessment Network (Apian) (reference)

  • AFTA, NAFTA, CER, and APEC : po[s]sibilities for enhancing trade and investment flows (reference)

  • International Trade and Competition Policy: Cer, Apec, and the Wto (reference)

  • View from the 19th Floor: Reflections of the First Apec Executive Director (Iseas Series on Apec, No 1) (reference)

  • From Apec to Xanadu: Creating a Viable Community in the Post-Cold War Pacific (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: APEC

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Russia

Russia became a member of APEC in November 1998. (references)

Brunei Darussalam

Brunei hosts the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in November 2000. (references)

Taiwan

As noted, Taiwan is a member of APEC, to which the U.S. also belongs. (references)

Political Economy

PERU

Peru is a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and APEC, and is an active participant in negotiations toward the Free Trade Area of the Americas. (references)

MALAYSIA

Malaysia has been an active participant in multilateral and regional trade fora such as the World Trade Organization (WTO) and APEC, which it chaired in 1998. (references)

Vietnam

Vietnam entered Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) in November 1998. Negotiations for Vietnam's membership in World Trade Organization membership are proceeding very slowly, awaiting approval of the US-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement. (references)

Trade

Australia

Approximately seventy percent of Australia's exports go to APEC economies. (references)

Japan

However, it is a member of APEC, which has established a goal of APEC-wide free trade and investment for developed country members by 2010, and for all APEC member countries by 2020. (references)

Philippines

The Philippines agreed to participate in the eight Early Voluntary Sectoral Liberalization (EVSL) initiatives (now called Accelerated Tariff Liberalization, ATL) endorsed at the 1997 APEC Leaders Meeting in Vancouver. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: APEC

"APEC" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 64.29% of the time. "APEC" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)64.29%9117,287
Noun (singular)35.71%5157,705
                    Total100.00%14N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: APEC

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

apec

514

apec universidad

13

apec miembros

3

apec mexico

3

apec secretariat

3

2003 apec

2

apec system

2

apec business card travel

2

airsoft apec

2

apec thailand

2

apec japan

2

2002 apec

2

apec es que

2

apec history

2

apec bill herrmann

2

apec engineer

2

apec envelope

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: APEC

Language Translations for "APEC"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

亞太"合組" . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

apecay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: APEC

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: cape, pace.

Words within the letters "a-c-e-p"

-1 letter: ace, ape, cap, cep, pac, pea, pec.

-2 letters: ae, pa, pe.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-p"
 

+1 letter: apace, becap, caped, caper, capes, chape, cheap, crape, epact, paced, pacer, paces, peace, peach, pecan, place, recap, scape, space.

 

+2 letters: accept, apache, apercu, apices, apiece, apneic, aspect, becaps, camped, camper, canape, capers, caplet, capote, capped, capper, carped, carpel, carper, carpet, chapel, chapes, cheapo, cheaps, cowpea, craped, crapes, culpae, decamp, encamp, epacts, eparch, epical, escape, escarp, faceup, hepcat, icecap, ipecac, pacers, packed, packer, packet, palace, parcel, parsec, peaced, peaces, peachy, pecans, pechan, placed, placer, places, placet, plaice, pleach, plicae, pomace, prance, preach, preact, recaps, redcap, repack, scaped, scapes, scrape, secpar, spaced, spacer, spaces, spacey, spicae, teacup, toecap.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Abbreviations
8. Acronyms
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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