P.O.W.

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See also: pow, Pow, POW, PoW, pow., and pōw

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P.O.W.

  1. (military) Initialism of prisoner of war; also POW.
    • 2022 October 6, Eric Asimov, “Echoes of a World War in Wines From the Early 1940s”, in The New York Times‎[1]:
      Gaston Huet, the proprietor, whose story is recounted in “Wine and War,” had returned after five years in a German P.O.W. camp. He was in a gravely weakened condition but was able to make the ’45, a great vintage in France.
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