POS

Initialism of proof of service.

Noun

  1. Initialism of proof of service.
  2. Initialism of peripheral oxygen saturation.
  3. Initialism of part of speech.
    • Eight POSs are defined in traditional English grammar: noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction, and interjection. - 2009, Mirjam Sepesy Maučec, Zdravko Kačič, “Statistical Modelling of Highly...
    • To include part-of-speech (POS) information, the corpus was tagged using the CLAWS tagger. - 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes:...

    Related: PoS

  4. Initialism of point of sale or point of service.
  5. Initialism of proprietary operating system.
  6. Initialism of position and orientation system.
  7. Initialism of piece of shit.
    • Unlimited technology from the whole universe, and we cruise 'round in a Ford P.O.S. - 1997, Ed Solomon, Men in Black, spoken by Agent J (Will Smith):
    • Everything you lost was because you are a P.O.S,^([sic]) […] - 2011, Sarreta “Whispers” Lopez, “I Have Recognized My Worth”, in I Have Arrived, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 69:
    • I told him he is a POS for saying that to me (what a terrible thing to say to my husband! I am just as guilty sometimes for saying hurtful things), and how dare he try and hurt me in such a cruel way, telling me he...

    Related: P.O.S.

  8. Initialism of Parinaud's oculoglandular syndrome.

Forms

POSes POSs

Derived

EFTPOS POS terminal

Phrase

  1. Initialism of parent over shoulder (i.e. observing the young user's conversation).
    • Hang on, POS ... can you tell me about it later?