See ONS on Wiktionary
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "ONS",
"name": "en-prop"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "Office for National Statistics"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "British English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 2 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
222,
225
]
],
"ref": "2022 April 18, Rupert Neate, “The end of the suit: has Covid finished off the menswear staple?”, in The Guardian:",
"text": "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”.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
4,
7
]
],
"ref": "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:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Initialism of Office for National Statistics."
],
"id": "en-ONS-en-name-dVphvo2w",
"links": [
[
"Office for National Statistics",
"w:Office for National Statistics"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(UK) Initialism of Office for National Statistics."
],
"tags": [
"UK",
"abbreviation",
"alt-of",
"initialism"
]
}
],
"word": "ONS"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "ONS",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "ONS",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "strong",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "de-ndecl",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "ONS",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "ONS",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "ONS",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "ONS",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "ONS",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "ONS",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "ONS",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "ONS",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"definite",
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "m,-,-"
},
"expansion": "ONS m (strong, genitive ONS, plural ONS)",
"name": "de-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "m,-,-"
},
"name": "de-ndecl"
}
],
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "One-Night-Stand"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "German entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 2 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
131,
134
]
],
"ref": "2019, Max & Jakob, Kann ich nicht sagen, muss ich nackt sehen, Random House, →ISBN:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"initialism of One-Night-Stand"
],
"id": "en-ONS-de-noun-XGvI4rGc",
"links": [
[
"One-Night-Stand",
"One-Night-Stand#German"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(colloquial) initialism of One-Night-Stand"
],
"tags": [
"abbreviation",
"alt-of",
"colloquial",
"initialism",
"masculine",
"strong"
]
}
],
"word": "ONS"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "ONS",
"name": "en-prop"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "Office for National Statistics"
}
],
"categories": [
"British English",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English initialisms",
"English lemmas",
"English proper nouns",
"English terms with quotations",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
222,
225
]
],
"ref": "2022 April 18, Rupert Neate, “The end of the suit: has Covid finished off the menswear staple?”, in The Guardian:",
"text": "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”.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
4,
7
]
],
"ref": "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:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Initialism of Office for National Statistics."
],
"links": [
[
"Office for National Statistics",
"w:Office for National Statistics"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(UK) Initialism of Office for National Statistics."
],
"tags": [
"UK",
"abbreviation",
"alt-of",
"initialism"
]
}
],
"word": "ONS"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "ONS",
"tags": [
"genitive"
]
},
{
"form": "ONS",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "strong",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "de-ndecl",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "ONS",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "ONS",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "ONS",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "ONS",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"definite",
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "ONS",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "ONS",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"definite",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "ONS",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "ONS",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"definite",
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "m,-,-"
},
"expansion": "ONS m (strong, genitive ONS, plural ONS)",
"name": "de-noun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "m,-,-"
},
"name": "de-ndecl"
}
],
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "One-Night-Stand"
}
],
"categories": [
"German colloquialisms",
"German entries with incorrect language header",
"German initialisms",
"German lemmas",
"German masculine nouns",
"German nouns",
"German terms with quotations",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Requests for translations of German quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
131,
134
]
],
"ref": "2019, Max & Jakob, Kann ich nicht sagen, muss ich nackt sehen, Random House, →ISBN:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"initialism of One-Night-Stand"
],
"links": [
[
"One-Night-Stand",
"One-Night-Stand#German"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(colloquial) initialism of One-Night-Stand"
],
"tags": [
"abbreviation",
"alt-of",
"colloquial",
"initialism",
"masculine",
"strong"
]
}
],
"word": "ONS"
}
Download raw JSONL data for ONS meaning in All languages combined (3.6kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-08-28 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-08-05 using wiktextract (872fc7b and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.