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1. personalpronounMe and at least one other person, excluding the person(s) being addressed. (exclusive us.)

   Don't treat us like idiots.

2. personalpronounMe and at least one other person, including the person(s) being addressed. (inclusive us.)

   Let's ask him if he'll give us a lift.

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   Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us...

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 1:1

3. personalpronounWe, used in the same circumstances where “me” would be used instead of “I”, e.g. for the pronoun in isolation or as the complement of the copula

   Who's going to go? — Us. We'll go.

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   Who's there? — Us. (or) — It's us.

   When I's a chile us play marbles and run rabbits and ride de stick hoss and de like.

   1936–1938, the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of Texas, quoting Joe Barnes, Slave Narratives […], volume XVI (Texas Narratives), part 1, Washington, D.C., published 1941, →OCLC, page 45

4. personalpronounAny entity that the speaker is a part of or identifies with, such as place of employment or education, nation, region, language, etc.

   It's not true that the rest of Europe hates us.

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   I went to watch my favourite team play Real Madrid, but they thrashed us 5-0.

5. personalpronounPeople in general.

   Grief ages us.

6. colloquialpersonalpronounThe person(s) being addressed.

   Come on! Wakey wakey! Let's get us up and out of bed, please.

7. colloquialpersonalpronounUsed to imply connection between the speaker's experiences or activities and a group of listeners.

   Hey guys, in this video I'll show you how I make my upside-down sponge cake. First let's get us a few ingredients that we'll need ...

8. Commonwealthcolloquialpersonalpronounusuallyget; fetch; get; fetchMe.

   Give us a look at your paper.

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   Fetch us a cold beer from the fridge, would you.

   She's turned the weans against us!

   (talking to oneself) Now then ... let me see ... I hope I'm doing this right ... if we just connect these two wires together ... if it gives us a shock then ... Ow!

9. NorthumbriapersonalpronounMe (in all contexts).

   Could ye dee that for us?

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   Look at us while ye’re speakin tiv us.

1. Designates the speaker(s)/writer(s) as constituting or belonging to the stated category of people (objective case).

   It's not good enough for us teachers.

2. proscribedDesignates the speaker(s)/writer(s) as constituting or belonging to the stated category of people (subjective case).

   Us gays and lesbians in here got a reason to be bitching about the conditions.

   1988 February 7, Mike Riegle, quoting John Royal, “Why Does GCN Have A Prisoner Project?”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 29, page 10

3. Northern EnglandOur.

   We'll have to throw us food out.

1. informalThe relationship between the speaker and some other unspecified person.

   There is no us.

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   Us is the best thing that's ever happened to me.

1. alternativerareAlternative form of u's.

alternative US U.S. · alternative U. S.

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of the United States: a country in North America.

   ICANN is based in the US.

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   legal residents of the contiguous US

   The Gulf States are the US states bordering the Gulf of Mexico.

   Some 35 states, all five US territories and four tribes have told the US Department of Agriculture that they will participate in Summer EBT this year, covering about 70% of the children eligible for the program.

   2024 January 10, Tami Luhby, “New program will help feed millions of kids over the summer, but not all states are participating”, in CNN

   From the perspective of foreign producers, it is more difficult to export tariffed goods to the US because US importers have to pay the tariff.

   2024 December 5, Madison Minges, “Understanding Trump Tariffs 2.0”, in American University

plural USs

1. abbreviationinitialismhuman sciencesInitialism of unconditioned stimulus.
2. abbreviationinitialismmedicineInitialism of ultrasonography or ultrasound.

1. abbreviationnot comparableAbbreviation of undersize.
2. abbreviationnot comparableAbbreviation of unserviceable.

   The radio is US.

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Upper Sorbian.

1. pluralplural of U