compo
See also: Compo
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /kɒm.pəʊ/
- Rhymes: -ɒmpəʊ
Noun
compo (countable and uncountable, plural compos)
- Abbreviation of compensation.
- (Australia, slang) Workers' compensation.
- Abbreviation of composition.
- (military, slang, historical, attributive) Compo ration.
- 1992, Martin Walker, Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 1991: Public Eating:
- Sometimes supplies of food might be a little short in certain areas but attempts were made to ensure that all men had some rations, compo and fresh, available to them.
- A mixture of whiting, resin, and glue for ornamenting walls and cornices.
- Lime cement mortar.
- Lime-cement mortar is also known as composition or "compo" mortar, guarded or gauged mortar. The mix contains, lime, cement and sand in proportions depending on the requirements of the work.
- (cricket) A type of practice cricket ball made of cork and rubber.
- (military, slang, historical, attributive) Compo ration.
- Abbreviation of competition.
- 2013, Cynthia Chris, David A. Gerstner, Media Authorship, page 162:
- Some Demosceners claim, however, that the Demoscene is no longer a vital community, and that commercial sponsors of compos (competitions) have corrupted the community's original ethos.
Derived terms
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkompo/, [ˈko̞mpo̞]
Declension
| Inflection of compo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | compo | compot | ||
| genitive | compon | compojen | ||
| partitive | compoa | compoja | ||
| illative | compoon | compoihin | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | compo | compot | ||
| accusative | nom. | compo | compot | |
| gen. | compon | |||
| genitive | compon | compojen | ||
| partitive | compoa | compoja | ||
| inessive | compossa | compoissa | ||
| elative | composta | compoista | ||
| illative | compoon | compoihin | ||
| adessive | compolla | compoilla | ||
| ablative | compolta | compoilta | ||
| allative | compolle | compoille | ||
| essive | compona | compoina | ||
| translative | compoksi | compoiksi | ||
| abessive | compotta | compoitta | ||
| instructive | — | compoin | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
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French
Etymology
Shortening of composition.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ̃.po/
Audio (file)
Further reading
- “compo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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