ONS

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”.

   • 2024 December 23, Heather Stewart, “‘It’s a huge problem’: what’s gone wrong at the ONS and why does it matter?”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     The ONS has been building up a new index, the “transformed labour Market Survey”, to replace the LFS. But repeated twists and tweaks mean it may not be ready to launch until 2027.

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

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^[3], 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.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)