MWU

English

Noun

MWU (plural MWUs)

1. Initialism of multi-word unit.
   • 2008, Belinda Maia, Rui Silva, Anabela Barreiro, Cecília Fróis, “‘N-grams in search of theories’”, in Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, editor, Corpus Linguistics, Computer Tools, and Applications – State of the Art: PALC 2007 (Łódź Studies in Language; volume 17), Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 76:

     In a contrastive study we conducted recently (Silva 2006), we found that applying a simple n-gram tool such as the one used in the Corpógrafo to a bilingual corpus of comparable texts in Portuguese and in English allows the identification of significant MWUs or lexical bundles.

   • 2010, Cvetana Krstev, Ranka Stanković, Ivan Obradović, Duško Vitas, Miloš Utvić, “Automatic Construction of a Morphological Dictionary of Multi-Word Units”, in Hrafn Loftsson, Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson, Sigrún Helgadóttir, editors, Advances in Natural Language Processing: 7th International Conference on NLP, IceTAL 2010, Reykjavik, Iceland, August 16-18, 2010, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 6233), Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, →ISBN, page 230:

     There are still cases when no additional information, whether extracted from MWU lemmas themselves or subsequently from electronic dictionaries, can help in deciding in favor of one inflectional class over other possibilities. For instance, this is the case for krem-karamel ‘caramel cream’ and kamen-temeljac ‘foundation stone’: both components in these MWUs are masculine inanimate nouns in the nominative singular, but in the first one karamel is the head and the first component does not inflect (super-class 2xn), while in the second example kamen is the head and both components inflect (super-class nxn).

   • 2010, Georgie Columbus, “Processing MWUs: Are MWU Subtypes Psycholinguistically Real?”, in David Wood, editor, Perspectives on Formulaic Language: Acquisition and Communication, Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 197:

     The role of MWUs in processing should be made clearer by generally increased reading speeds over entire MWUs as compared to non-MWUs.

Proper noun

MWU

1. Initialism of Maccabi World Union.
   • 1996, David Levinson, Karen Christensen, editors, Encyclopedia of World Sport: From Ancient Times to the Present, Oxford University Press, published 1999, →ISBN, page 232:

     Regional Maccabiah Games, organized by the MWU, are also held throughout the world.

   • 2001, Jewish Cultural Celebrations and Competitions in Mandatory Palestine, 1920-1947: Body, Beauty, and the Search for Authenticity, page 118:

     With this announcement he made a deceit of the agreement of MWU in Berlin, that says, “The Maccabiah is a world gathering of Hebrew sport in Eretz Israel.”

   • 2012, John Nauright, Charles Parrish, editors, Sports Around the World: History, Culture, and Practice, ABC-Clio, →ISBN, page 365:

     Headquartered in Ramat Gan, Israel, the MWU is the central administrative entity representing the six affiliated global Maccabi confederations: Israel, Europe, North America, Latin America, South Africa, and Australia.

2. Initialism of Merriam-Webster Unabridged, edition of Webster’s Dictionary.
   • 2002, Reference Books Bulletin, 2001-2002: A Compilation of Evaluations September 2001 Through August 2002, →ISBN, page 27:

     Merriam-Webster will need to incorporate some changes in MWU to take full advantage of its new online environment.

   • 2015, Philip Sisson, Julie Ryan, “What do we Know? Building a Knowledge Concept map”, in Andrea Garlatti, Maurizzio Massaro, editors, Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Knowledge Management, ECKM 2015, The University of Udine, Italy, 3-4 September 2015, Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited, →ISBN, page 1029:

     Known-valid addresses the degree of internal certainty or certitude – view, opinion, sentiment, persuasion, belief, conviction (MWU 2013-4: opinion, Synonym Discussion; MWD 2012-3: opinion) which may be expressed by propositional states such as feel, think, believe, and know (Atkinson 2015).

   • 2020, Konrad Szcześniak, Andrzej Porzuczek, Transcription Practice for the International Phonetic Alphabet: Exercises for Students of English, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, page 94:

     In MWU, -less words are transcribed with /lɪs/ (e.g. pointless /ˈpɔɪnt.lɪs/).

3. Initialism of Midwestern University.
   • 2020, Dominik D. Kaltenbach, Dinesh Jaishankar, Meng Hao, Jacob C. Beer, Michael V. Volin, Umesh R. Desai, Vaibhav Tiwari, “Sulfotransferase and Heparanase: Remodeling Engines in Promoting Virus Infection and Disease Development”, in Shibashish Giri, Chandravanu Dash, editors, Epigenetic Approaches in Drug Discovery, Development and Treatment, Frontiers Media, page 35:

     VT was supported by MWU’s start-up funds.

   • 2021, Karen J. Nichols, Physician Leadership: The 11 Skills Every Doctor Needs to be an Effective Leader, Wiley, →ISBN, page 212:

     Add to this list my longtime friend Lori Kemper, DO, who later became an MWU dean and who also did and does mentor me still.

   • 2021, “Editors”, in Jason H. Byrd, Patricia Norris, Nancy Bradley-Siemens, editors, Veterinary Forensic Medicine and Forensic Sciences, CRC Press:

     Since 2016, she has been a full-time assistant clinical professor of Shelter Medicine at MWU, teaching multiple classes but primarily third-year electives in shelter medicine and veterinary forensics and fourth-year shelter medicine rotations.

4. Initialism of Mine Workers’ Union, predecessor of Solidarity (South African trade union).
   • 1995, E. J. Verwey, editor, New Dictionary of South African Biography, volume 1, HSRC Publishers, →ISBN, page 99:

     After the suspension in 1940 of MWU elections for the duration of the Second World War (1939–1945), the Hervormingsorganisasie concentrated on strengthening itself internally.

   • 2005, Wessel P. Visser, “Urbanization and Afrikaner Class Formation: The Mine Workers’ Union and the Search for a Cultural Identity”, in Steven J. Salm, Toyin Falola, editors, African Urban Spaces in Historical Perspective, University of Rochester Press, →ISBN, page 144:

     In October 1938, a new organization, the Reformers’ Organization, or Reformers, was founded within the MWU.

   • 2021, Danelle van Zyl-Hermann, Privileged Precariat: White Workers and South Africa’s Long Transition to Majority Rule, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 198:

     But in 2001 the MWU left its old mining stomping grounds when it relocated to rented office space in Centurion, a hub of white middle-class suburbia fast unfolding halfway between Johannesburg and Pretoria.