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MWE

MWE is the initialism of minimal working example.

MWE is the initialism of multi-word expression.

Meaning of multi-word expression

Noun

multi-word expression (plural multi-word expressions)

  1. A lexeme-like unit made up of a sequence of two or more words that has properties that are not predictable from the properties of the individual words or their normal mode of combination, such as an idiom ("pay the piper"), a phrasal noun ("steam iron"), a phrasal preposition ("in front of"), or a phrasal verb ("buy off").
    Synonyms:
    MWE, polynym

Forms of MWE

pluralMWEs

Questions about MWE

What is MWE the initialism of?
MWE is the initialism of minimal working example.

Words near MWE in the dictionary

  1. MWB
  2. MWC
  3. mwchin
  4. mwchins
  5. MWDEU
  6. MWE
  7. Mwene-Ditu
  8. mwenge
  9. Mwera
  10. Mweru
  11. MWEs

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: MWE (page history and authors); multi-word expression (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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