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What does OS stand for?

Own Ship


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Over Speed
Over Stock
Over the Shoulder (cinematography)
Overall Survival
Overseas
Overshoot
Oversize
Oversold (stock market)
Overtime Scheduled
Owen Sound (City, Canada)
Oxygen Sensor
Mac Os X (Apple Computer, Inc.)
Over, Short, and Damaged (cargo)
operating supplies & equipment
Operational Strategy and Effectiveness
Occupational Safety and Health
Office of Safety and Quality
Open Stem and Yoke (valve)
Outside Screw and Yoke (gate valve mechanism)
Outside Stem & Yoke (valve)



Samples in periodicals archive:
A dive bomber pilot on the Lexington during the Battle of the Coral Sea in May 1942, Cousins led bombing attacks against the Japanese aircraft carrier Shoho and survived the sinking of his own ship.
He sailed round the world on Cook's second voyage before taking command of his own ship in 1787.
He sailed around the world on Cook's second voyage before taking command of his own ship in 1787.
after all, isn't that what it's all about Starting your own business and being the captain of your own ship In these uncertain economic times, all of us could use a second income; and of course many of us would like to ditch our day jobs altogether and go into business for ourselves ?
Anchors, weather and sports reporters will stay with their own ships, although anchor Rick Edlund will be gone from Channel 11.
If the freight goes up, the company will make money through its own ships.
Now Bill has his own ship, converted into a warp ship, and heads for the stars--in a comedy of errors which involves ignorant Marines and an alien planet's threat to the universe.
The then precentor of the cathedral, Canon Stephen Smalley, spoke of the loss of "our own ship, the Coventry".

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