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abbreviation

A set of letters that are drawn from a word or from a sequence of words and used for brevity in place of the full word or phrase.

Abbreviation

A shortening of a phrase to its key letters.

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The cluster was labelled Ambivalent relationship with parents with threatened autonomy (abbrev. "ambivalent").

Patrones de individualizacion en adolescentes eslovenos y la relacion con su percepcion sobre sus padres, amigos y profesores

This association (abbrev.) recently forged an agreement with the National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus

The nutraceuticals world crossword challenge

In the style of "Edifice Wrecks" (Bullwinkle), "Mousey Dung" (Kliban), "You rippa dese, you menna dese!", and David Morice's presidential puns in WW92-171, here's abbrev history of the western world in the form of more or less homophonic puns or phonetic charades on famous names.