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short titles

short titles is the plural of short title.

Meaning of short title

Noun

short title (plural short titles)

  1. An abbreviated form of entry for a book in a list or catalog that usually gives only the author's name, the title in brief, the date and place of publication, and the publisher's or printer's name.
  2. (Commonwealth, Philippines, US) A title given to an act (or other piece of legislation) to facilitate citation; generally used as the common name for that legislation.
    • The short title of this Act is the Companies Act 2006.2006, Parliament of the United Kingdom, Companies Act 2006, section 1298

Questions about short titles

What is short titles the plural of?
Short titles is the plural of short title.

Words near short titles in the dictionary

  1. short tempers
  2. short term
  3. short terms
  4. short time
  5. short title
  6. short titles
  7. short ton
  8. short tons
  9. short track
  10. short tracks
  11. short trousers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: short titles (page history and authors); short title (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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