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CAO

"CAO" is a common misspelling or typo for: cal, cap, capo, ciao, co, coal, coat, coax, coo.


Specialty Definition: CAO

DomainDefinition

Census

Designation for the (Congressional Affairs Office), Bureau of the Census. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: CAO

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

CAO Computer Assisted Ordering

See : barcode

CAO is a Dutch word for a collective employment contract framework for a line of business or a single company.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "CAO."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: CAO

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

CAO

EnglishOffice of Compliance Advisor/OmbudsmanN/A

CAO

FrenchConception assistée par ordinateurComputing

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: CAO

Synonyms by domain: calcium oxide (chemistry), chronic airway obstruction (medicine), Computer Aided Orderingsystem (computing), Computer-aided office, computer-aided organisation, computer-assisted office, Office of Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman (finance).

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Crosswords: CAO

Specialty definitions using "CAO": calc-alkalic, calcedead-burned dolomite, dolomaSantorin earthtricalcium pentaluminate. (references)
Non-English Usage: "CAO" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Vietnamese (aloft, high, high-pitched, lofty, superior, towering, upper).

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Modern Usage: CAO

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Hu pan cao (1959)

Cun cao xin (1953)

Cao mu jie bing (1944)

Zuo ci xi cao (1931)

Ye cao xian hua (1930)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: CAO

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Divine Farmer's Materia Medica: A Translation of the Shen Nong Ben Cao (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

  • The Faces of Love ~ The Songs of Jake Heggie / Fleming, McNair, Larmore, von Stade, Forand, Cao, Clayton, Vaness, Asawa (reference)

    (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: CAO

AuthorQuotation

Yu Cao

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: CAO

SubjectTopicQuote

Civil Liberties

Vietnam

A central tenet of the Cao Dai faith is belief in the ability to communicate with the spirits through the use of a medium. (references)

Vietnam

The Council has full powers to control the affairs and manage the operations, the hierarchy, and clergy of the Cao Dai faith. (references)

Vietnam

The Government has prohibited ordination into the Cao Dai priesthood since 1975, and no new priests were ordained during the year. (references)

Economic History

Vietnam

Religions: Buddhism, Hoa Hao, Cao Dai, Christian (predominantly Roman Catholic, some Protestant), animism, Islam. (references)

Democratic Republic of Congo

Discovered in 1482 by Portuguese navigator Diego Cao and later explored by English journalist Henry Morton Stanley, the area was officially colonized in 1885 as a personal possession of Belgian King Leopold II as the Congo Free State. (references)

Human Rights

China

In July labor activist Cao Maobing was released from a psychiatric facility where he had been held for 7 months. (references)

Political Economy

China

The authorities released a few political prisoners before their terms were over, notably Zhang Jie, Han Lifa, Guo Haifeng, Cao Maobing, and Ma Zhe. (references)

Trade

Philippines

In addition to duties and taxes, BOC is authorized to charge a P2500 ($60) fee, on a per-importation basis, for goods cleared through the SGL. Executive Order 230 provides the legal basis for the SGL, while CAO 2-2000 contains implementing regulations. (references)

Philippines

CAO 2-2000 outlines criteria used to determine qualified companies: that the importer has not been subject to disciplinary action or penalties by the BOC; that subject imports are not prohibited; and that the importer has been transacting with BOC for at least one year and falls within the top 1000 importers in terms of duties and taxes paid. (references)

Worker Rights

China

Cao was held for more than 200 days, and released in July. (references)

China

In another prominent case, Cao Maobing, an electrician from Jiangsu Province, was detained in a mental facility late in 2000, allegedly for his attempts to form an independent union at a Jiangsu silk factory. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: CAO

"CAO" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 73.33% of the time. "CAO" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)73.33%11106,044
Noun (singular)26.67%4175,879
                    Total100.00%15N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: CAO

The following table summarizes the usage of "CAO" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
CaoLast name2,0007,425
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CAO

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

cao

279

cao ziekenhuizen

7

cao cigar

94

cao maintenance

6

cao yong

38

cao maintenance support

6

cao cao

33

cao emploi

6

cao dai

31

cao onderwijs

6

cao horeca

21

cao cigar discount

6

cao scott violin

16

adaweb.net cao

6

nguyen cao ky

15

cao li

6

cao kleinmetaal

13

bouw cao

5

cao kinderopvang

12

cola cao

5

cao gold

12

cao klein metaal

5

cao duyen ky nguyen

11

beroepsgoederenvervoer cao

5

bang cao nam viet

11

cao zhi

5

cao taxi

9

cao ziekenhuis

5

cao utc

8

3d cao mesure

5

cao diego

8

cao ggz

5

cao metaal

7

cao gehandicaptenzorg

5

cao young

7

cao cigar discount gold

5

scott cao

7

cao brazilia

5

cao welzijn

7

cao thuiszorg

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: CAO

Language Translations for "CAO"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

Adminisztratív Fõtiszt, Adminisztratív Fõnök (chief administrative officer). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aocay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: CAO

Derivations

Words beginning with "CAO": caoutchouc, caoutchoucs. (additional references)

Words ending with "CAO": cacao, curacao. (additional references)

Words containing "CAO": cacaos, curacaos. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: CAO

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: oca.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-o"
 

+1 letter: arco, calo, capo, chao, ciao, coal, coat, coax, coca, coda, cola, coma, coxa, loca, ocas, orca, taco.

 

+2 letters: achoo, acock, acold, acorn, actor, ancon, ascot, azoic, bacon, banco, cabob, cacao, cahow, cajon, calos, cameo, campo, canoe, canon, canso, canto, capon, capos, carbo, cargo, carob, carol, carom, chaos, chiao, claro, cloak, coach, coact, coala, coals, coaly, coapt, coast, coati, coats, cobia, cobra, cocas, cocoa, codas, colas, colza, comae, comal, comas, comma, conga, copal, copra, coral, coria, costa, cotan, cotta, coxae, coxal, croak, cyano, focal, guaco, havoc, loach, local, macho, macon, macro, mocha, nacho, narco, ocean, ocrea, octad, octal, octan, orach, orcas, poach, racon, roach, tacos, taroc, vocal, wacko.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Quotations: Familiar
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Usage Frequency
9. Names: Frequency
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Abbreviations
13. Acronyms
14. Derivations
15. Anagrams
16. Bibliography


  

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