"DMV" meaning in English

See DMV in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} DMV
  1. (US) The region made up of the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia. Tags: US Categories (topical): Automotive
    Sense id: en-DMV-en-name-CWVzj-MK Disambiguation of Automotive: 48 25 17 10 Categories (other): American English

Noun

Forms: DMVs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} DMV (plural DMVs)
  1. (US) Initialism of department of motor vehicles. Tags: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: department of motor vehicles Translations (department of motor vehicles): إِدَارَة الْمَرْكَبَات (alt: ʔidāra(t) al-markabāt) [feminine] (Arabic), oifig mótarchánach [feminine] (Irish), DETRAN [Brazil] (Portuguese), Departamento de Trânsito (Portuguese), автотранспортная инспе́кция (avtotransportnaja inspékcija) [feminine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-DMV-en-noun-RNLRSCzR Categories (other): American English, English links with redundant alt parameters, English links with redundant wikilinks, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 23 64 8 5 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 17 69 8 6 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 15 76 5 4 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 11 83 4 3 Disambiguation of Terms with Arabic translations: 30 53 11 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 32 54 10 4 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 27 55 11 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 15 72 7 6 Disambiguation of 'department of motor vehicles': 97 1 2
  2. (UK) Initialism of deserted medieval village. Tags: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: deserted medieval village
    Sense id: en-DMV-en-noun-YUKozcgR Categories (other): British English
  3. (anatomy) Initialism of dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus Categories (topical): Anatomy
    Sense id: en-DMV-en-noun-kZ-Fk2Bz Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: MOT, RTA

Inflected forms

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