"MOU" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2024 November 6, Betsy Klein, “What we know about the transition so far”, in CNN:",
          "text": "“I don’t think it is possible run an effective transition without entering into the MOUs in order to get access to critical government support,” Max Stier, the president and CEO of the nonprofit and nonpartisan Partnership for Public Service, told CNN. […] GSA “is prepared to provide services to the Trump transition team once an MOU is executed and services are accepted,” a GSA spokesperson said.",
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          "ref": "2026 June 17, Jonathan Chait, \"All the Sad Hawks\", The Atlantic",
          "text": "\"I suspect the MOU may be less awful than the administration's disastrous sales pitch,\" Mark Dubowitz of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies posted on X yesterday. (Later he conceded the deal was not better at all but, in fact, \"even worse than I assumed.\")"
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          "ref": "2024 November 6, Betsy Klein, “What we know about the transition so far”, in CNN:",
          "text": "“I don’t think it is possible run an effective transition without entering into the MOUs in order to get access to critical government support,” Max Stier, the president and CEO of the nonprofit and nonpartisan Partnership for Public Service, told CNN. […] GSA “is prepared to provide services to the Trump transition team once an MOU is executed and services are accepted,” a GSA spokesperson said.",
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          "text": "\"I suspect the MOU may be less awful than the administration's disastrous sales pitch,\" Mark Dubowitz of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies posted on X yesterday. (Later he conceded the deal was not better at all but, in fact, \"even worse than I assumed.\")"
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