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Oz

1

[oz]

noun

Australian Slang.
  1. Australia.



Oz

2

[oz]

oz.

3

abbreviation

  1. ounce; ounces.

oz

1

abbreviation

  1. ounce

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Oz

2

/ ɒ /

noun

  1. slangAustralia

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

oz

  1. Abbreviation of ounce

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Word History and Origins

Origin of oz1

Jocular back formation from Aussie ( def. ) (with voiced sibilant)

Origin of oz2

Abbreviation of Italian onza
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Word History and Origins

Origin of oz1

from Italian onza
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Example Sentences

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“This proposed rule stops the shell game and ensures federal Medicaid dollars go where they’re needed most — to pay for health care for vulnerable Americans who rely on this program, not to plug state budget holes or bankroll benefits for noncitizens,” Mehmet Oz, the CMS administrator, said in the statement.

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LeFranc: I knew where Oz ended in “The Batman.”

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I’m not the first type of person you would think who would get an opportunity to write a guy like Oz, necessarily, and to write into this type of world.

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After his fellow Oprah alum, Dr. Mehmet Oz, ran for the Senate last year, McGraw shrugged off the notion that he would ever follow suit, saying he “doesn’t know enough about it.”

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Later in the concert, the 56-year-old sang a medley of tunes by Peter Allen, the Australian songwriter and Manhattan bon vivant whom Jackman portrayed on Broadway in 2003 in “The Boy From Oz.”

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