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CBO

Specialty Definition: CBO

DomainDefinition

Census

(Characteristics of Business Owners Survey) A survey that collects demographic, financial, and economic information on business owners and their businesses every 5 years. (Economic Planning and Coordination Division). (references)

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: CBO

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

CBO

DutchComputer beheerd/begeleid onderwijsN/A

CBO

EnglishCommunity-based organisationPublic Administration, Politics & International Affaires

CBO

PortugueseConsumo bioquímico de oxigénioBiology & Biotechnology

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

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Crosswords: CBO

Non-English Usage: "CBO" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Portuguese (biochemical oxygen demand).

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Commercial Usage: CBO

DomainTitle

Books

  • Treasury, CBO, and GAO reports on FNMA, FHLMC, and the Federal Home Loan Bank System : hearings before the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development of the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sec (reference)

  • Silent hounds, lurking wolves, and homeless people : a skeptical analysis of the CBO study, The tax treatment of homeownership, issues & options (reference)

  • CBO Analysis of the Managed Competition Act : hearing before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, second session, May 4, 1994 (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: CBO

SubjectTopicQuote

Trade

Oman

The CBO raised the minimum capital requirements that forced several bank mergers. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: CBO

"CBO" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 42.86% of the time. "CBO" is used about 7 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 (singular)42.86%3202,518
Noun (proper)28.57%2245,945
Noun (common)28.57%2245,945
                    Total100.00%7N/A

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

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Derivations: CBO

Derivations

Words containing "CBO": ecbolic, ecbolics. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: CBO

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: cob.

Words within the letters "b-c-o"

-1 letter: bo.

 Words containing the letters "b-c-o"
 

+1 letter: bloc, bock, cobb, cobs, comb.

 

+2 letters: bacon, banco, block, blocs, bocce, bocci, boche, bocks, boric, botch, brock, bronc, bucko, bunco, cabob, carbo, carob, cibol, clomb, cobbs, cobby, cobia, coble, cobra, combe, combo, combs, coomb, corby.

 

+3 letters: bacons, bancos, beacon, beckon, beclog, become, bemock, bicorn, bicron, binocs, bionic, biopic, biotic, blocks, blocky, blotch, bobcat, bocces, boccia, boccie, boccis, boches, bodice, bonaci, bonduc, borsch, botchy, boucle, bounce, bouncy, boxcar, broach, broche, brocks, bromic, bronco, broncs, brooch, buckos, buncos, cabobs, carbon, carbos, carboy, carobs, ceboid, cibols, cobalt, cobber, cobble, cobias, cobles, cobnut, cobras, cobweb, colobi, combat, combed, comber, combes, combos, confab, coombe, coombs, corban, corbel, corbie, corymb, cowboy, crambo, cuboid, cyborg, icebox, mobcap, niobic, object, obtect, phobic, recomb, sorbic, tombac.

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

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Alternative Orthography: CBO


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 42 4F

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    -...    ---

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01000010 01001111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#66 &#79

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0042 004F

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

373649

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Abbreviations
6. Acronyms
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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