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Title: suggested word: intel
Post by: a non-amos on March 01, 2007, 02:30:33 PM

I am not referring to the name of the large corporation.  I am referring to the abbreviation for intelligence, as in army intel or business intel.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/intel (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/intel)

Thanks!

Title: Re: suggested word: intel
Post by: Alan W on March 01, 2007, 03:29:39 PM

As usual, your suggestion is valid. Apart from the definitions you linked to, I also found in the Oxford Dictionary:

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intel
→ noun
[mass noun] [often as modifier] (Military, informal) military intelligence; information.
- ORIGIN 1980s: abbreviation.

The Oxford Dictionary of English (revised edition). Ed. Catherine Soanes and Angus Stevenson.
Oxford University Press, 2005. Oxford Reference Online (http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/ENTRY.html?subview=Main&entry=t140.e38791)

I'll add "intel" next time I update the word list.