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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation Post Exchange

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  • initialism US, military The U.S. Army's Post Exchange.

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  • noun a commissary on a United States Army post

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Examples

  • Also for future info the PX is going to start selling Guns and supplies again.

    Check this out! 2009

  • Also for future info the PX is going to start selling Guns and supplies again.

    Check this out! 2009

  • As Stanley Karnow writes, "the main PX [Post Exchange], located in the Saigon suburb of Cholon, was only slightly smaller than the New York Bloomingdale's ..." [

    Robert Weller: Afghan War Drones On Robert Weller 2010

  • As Stanley Karnow writes, "the main PX [Post Exchange], located in the Saigon suburb of Cholon, was only slightly smaller than the New York Bloomingdale's ..." [

    Robert Weller: Afghan War Drones On Robert Weller 2010

  • As Stanley Karnow writes, "the main PX [Post Exchange], located in the Saigon suburb of Cholon, was only slightly smaller than the New York Bloomingdale's ..." [

    Robert Weller: Afghan War Drones On Robert Weller 2010

  • As Stanley Karnow writes, "the main PX [Post Exchange], located in the Saigon suburb of Cholon, was only slightly smaller than the New York Bloomingdale's ..." [

    Robert Weller: Afghan War Drones On Robert Weller 2010

  • The sweetest is Pedro Ximenez – often just known as PX – the dark intensity of which is perfect with dessert and also a robust match for cheese.

    The sherry revival Norman Miller 2010

  • Then we've heard about things involving the PX, which is right down here.

    CNN Transcript Nov 5, 2009 2009

  • Early reports say a civilian in Kuwait City drove a white pick-up truck into a line of U.S. soldiers queuing up at a PX, which is a military store.

    CNN Transcript Mar 30, 2003 2003

  • Today the tactic apparently coming to Kuwait, just about an hour ago we have learned now that a man drove a pickup truck into a group of U.S. soldiers lined up at a military store known as a PX at Camp of Udairi, northwest of Kuwait City.

    CNN Transcript Mar 30, 2003 2003

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