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abbr.
  1. particulate matter
  2. past master
  3. police magistrate
    1. postmaster
    2. postmistress
  4. postmortem
  5. prime minister
  6. provost marshal

 
 

1. v. (from preventive maintenance) To bring down a machine for inspection or test purposes. See provocative maintenance; see also scratch monkey.

2. n. Abbrev. for ‘Presentation Manager’, an elephantine OS/2 graphical user interface.


 
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1940PM. This New York City tabloid daily newspaper, noted for its liberal, pro-labor policies, debuts, edited by former Time magazine publisher Ralph Ingersoll. Contributors included Ben Hecht and Margaret Bourke-White, and from 1945 until it ceased publication in 1948, it was owned by Marshall Field.

 

Preventive Maintenance. First level (echelon) maintenance of vehicles and equipment.

 
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The noun has 4 meanings:

Meaning #1: the position of the cabinet minister who is in charge of government affairs
  Synonyms: Prime Minister, premier

Meaning #2: an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease
  Synonyms: autopsy, necropsy, postmortem, postmortem examination

Meaning #3: the person who holds the position of head of state in England
  Synonyms: Prime Minister, premier

Meaning #4: modulation of the phase of the carrier wave
  Synonym: phase modulation


The adverb PM has one meaning:

Meaning #1: (Latin) between noon and midnight
  Synonyms: post meridiem, P.M.


 
 

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