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bis  (bs)
adv. Music
Again; twice. Used as a direction to repeat a passage.
interj.
Used to request an additional performance.
[French or Italian, both from Latin; see dwo- in Indo-European roots.]
bis [bɪs]
adv
twice; for a second time (used in musical scores to indicate a part to be repeated)
sentence substitute
encore! again!
[via Italian from Latin, from Old Latin duis]
BIS
abbreviation for (Economics, Accounting & Finance / Banking & Finance) Bank for International Settlements: an institution, based in Basel, Switzerland, that accepts deposits, makes loans for national central banks, and assists in offsetting speculative movements of funds between the major currencies; set up in 1930
International car registration for (Engineering / Automotive Engineering) Bosnia-Herzegovina
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BIS N ABBR (US) =Bank of International Settlements → BIP m


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, Volume III, AUS to BIS, you will find that bees are a 'large and natural family of the zoological order Hymenoptera, characterized by the plumose form of many of their hairs, by the large size of the basal segment of the foot .
Uneasy Money by Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville View in context
I have noted it, in my History of King Henry the Seventh of England, who depressed bis nobility; whereupon it came to pass, that his times were full of difficulties and troubles; for the nobility, though they continued loyal unto him, yet did they not co-operate with him in his business.
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I have been nearly mad; and you know the axiom, -- non bis in idem.
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