| 单词 | oas |
| 释义 | > as lemmasOAS OAS n. Canadian and (formerly) U.S. Old Age Security. ΚΠ 1956 V. D. Bornet Calif. Soc. Welfare v. 66 Lump sum income..must be used by an aged person on OAS to meet his needs. 1979 Canad. Jrnl. Econ. 12 459 The value of prospective OAS benefits payable to those in the labour force is found in a similar way. 1994 enRoute Mag. Sept. 22/1 If you're collecting OAS payments and your net income exceeds $53,215, you'll be hit by a tax. O.A.S. O.A.S. adv. rare on active service. ΚΠ 1928 E. Blunden Undertones of War 178 I remember your superscriptions, ‘O.A.S.’ and ‘B.E.F.’. O.A.S. O.A.S. n. [ < French O.A.S., initialism < Organisation de l'Armée Secrète ‘Secret Army Organization’] now historical an organization which opposed Algerian independence from France. ΚΠ 1961 Guardian 1 Dec. 13/2 It is also to be doubted whether the OAS leaders, for all their deliberate use of murder and plastic bombs, want ‘rat hunts’. 1973 C. Egleton Seven Days to Killing vii. 78 He was an Algerian colonist..and the French police had long been satisfied that he had never been connected with the OAS. 1993 Jrnl. Mod. Afr. Stud. 31 663 Some of the French mercenaries..who had fought with the Organisation de l'armée secrète (O.A.S.) in Algeria had been banished from France. OAS OAS n. Organization of American States. Π 1949 Ann. Organization Amer. States 1 No. 1. (title page) Charter of the OAS. 1974 Greenville (S. Carolina) News 22 Apr. 3/5 Kissinger was asked why he had not mentioned Cuba in a speech Saturday to the Organization of American States (OAS) meeting in Atlanta. 1991 Américas 43 12/2 It has conducted inter-American courses for both administrators and master craftsmen in most of the OAS member states. < as lemmas |
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