Meanings
ons1
- MalaysiaSingaporecolloquialindicativepresentsingularthird persontransitivethird-person singular simple present indicative of on
Ons2
- A female given name from Arabic.
Ons Jabeur has criticised Roland Garros for snubbing women’s tennis, saying “I don’t think they have daughters”.
2025 May 28, PA Media, “Ons Jabeur hits out at lack of women’s matches in French Open primetime slots”, in The Guardian
ONS3
- UKabbreviationinitialismInitialism of Office for National Statistics.
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.
2024 December 23, Heather Stewart, “‘It’s a huge problem’: what’s gone wrong at the ONS and why does it matter?”, in The Guardian1 more example
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”.
2022 April 18, Rupert Neate, “The end of the suit: has Covid finished off the menswear staple?”, in The Guardian
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ons. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ons
“ons.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ons. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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