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WAVES
abbr.
Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service

WAVES, Waves [weɪvz]
n (in the US)
acronym for
(Military) Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service; the women's reserve of the US navy

waves
  • breach - The leap of a whale out of the water or the breaking of waves over a vessel or onto a coast; it is also the act of breaking.
  • plangent - Describes the sound of the sea and its waves—reverberating and mournfully resonant.
  • swaff - To come one over another, like waves upon a shore.
  • lop - The state of the sea when it has waves that are short and lumpy, hence "loppy," when it is choppy and lumpy.


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Born on a North Dakota farm, educated in Minneapolis, she graduated from the University of Minnesota and served until being drafted into Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service as director of international relations and social legislation for the National Council of Jewish Women, New York.
Navy service for women, the WAVES - Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service.
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