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  • abbreviation UK, politics Honourable (in the titles of Members of Parliament)

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Examples

  • If anyone has not received the release, please either call Hon Hoy at 312-640-6688, and she will send you a copy.

    pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator 2008

  • Mr SPEAKER: I call the Hon Ruth Dyson to ask question No. 4.

    NZ On Screen 2010

  • Mr SPEAKER: I call the Hon Ruth Dyson to ask question No. 4.

    NZ On Screen 2010

  • Through successive bequests, the Church and land became the property of Captain Hon.

    Italianate Architecture in Surbiton, England: St. Raphael's 2009

  • It was a legal arm's length away in Chengdu, China, run by a goliath called Hon Hai Precision Industry, a Taiwanese company that's become one of the world's biggest employers and contract manufacturers.

    Measuring the Human Cost of an iPad Made in China John Bussey 2011

  • Hon, that is what Thatcher tried to make everyone believe - and she seems to have succeeded.

    Gandhi would be so proud. Fathorse 2008

  • (Since the expression Hon was itself a private joke, this book was long published in the United States as Daughters and Rebels until, in 2004, The New York Review of Books resuscitated the original title with — interest declared — an introduction by your humble servant.)

    Mitfordiana 2006

  • (Since the expression Hon was itself a private joke, this book was long published in the United States as Daughters and Rebels until, in 2004, The New York Review of Books resuscitated the original title with — interest declared — an introduction by your humble servant.)

    Mitfordiana 2006

  • Cat gave me a copy of Yume no Hon, which is very pretty.

    wiscon 30, day 3 jlundberg 2006

  • Those who pass the final degree become members of what is termed the Hon Lum

    East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan Frederic Courtland Penfield 1888

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