Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation chorionic villus sampling
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- initialism Concurrent Versions System - a utility that assists in tracking changes to software, etc.
- initialism cyclic vomiting syndrome
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Examples
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A CVS spokesperson wrote: CVS maintains positive, ongoing relationships with thousands of vendors, both large and small.
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CVS is a powerful wave of nausea that hits without warning and can last hours, leaving me heaving long after my stomach is empty.
Double transplant for type 1 diabetes brings troubles, gifts 2010
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CVS is too cheap to buy an air conditioning system.
CVS In Pennsylvania Keeps Pharmacy Supplies At Toasty 93 Degrees - The Consumerist 2008
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They join CVS, Rite-Aid and Walgreen in pointing out that pharmacists could easily be replaced by vending machines and that nobody gives a damn about their “beliefs.”
Waldo Jaquith - Kroger: Our employees have to do their job. 2007
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Drugstore chain CVS Corp., for its part, will buy 700 stand-alone Sav-On and Osco pharmacies and a distribution center from Albertson's for $2.93 billion.
Workless in America David 2006
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The American drug-store chain CVS sells "single-use" camcorders that use access controls to keep you from downloading the video, requiring you to go to the store and pay a hefty fee for "development" of your videos.
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Keeping everything in CVS means that he can keep all of his user-environments in synch, it means that he never loses data.
Boing Boing: November 9, 2003 - November 15, 2003 Archives 2003
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CVS is a free software tool that programmers use to keep track of, and synchronize, changes to documents.
Boing Boing: November 9, 2003 - November 15, 2003 Archives 2003
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I call CVS being a responsible establishment for what they are doing.
unknown title 2009
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And, from what I’ve seen in CVS commits on the open source Frontier project, the crypto extension indeed look like they’ve made it into the core app.
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