ONS

See also: ons, öns, -ons, and Ons

English

Proper noun

ONS

1. (UK) Initialism of Office for National Statistics.
   • 2022 April 18, Rupert Neate, “The end of the suit: has Covid finished off the menswear staple?”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     The government’s statistics agency said suits […] were not bought often enough to make it into the basket of 733 representative goods and services selected to measure the UK’s cost of living. They have been replaced in the ONS basket with a “formal jacket or blazer”.

Anagrams

• -son, NOS, NSO, Nos, Nos., SON, Son, nos, nos., son

German

Noun

ONS m (strong, genitive ONS, plural ONS)

1. (colloquial) Initialism of One-Night-Stand.
   • 2019, Max & Jakob, Kann ich nicht sagen, muss ich nackt sehen‎^[2], Random House, →ISBN:

     Es muss ja nicht sein, dass man direkt beim ersten Treffen miteinander schläft. Außerdem fände ich es nicht gerade angenehm, einen ONS während meiner Periode zu haben.

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Declension

Declension of ONS [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	ONS	die	ONS
genitive	eines	des	ONS	der	ONS
dative	einem	dem	ONS	den	ONS
accusative	einen	den	ONS	die	ONS