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TEU

TEU is the initialism of twenty-foot equivalent unit.

TEU is the initialism of Treaty on European Union.

Meaning of twenty-foot equivalent unit

Noun

twenty-foot equivalent unit (plural twenty-foot equivalent units)

  1. (logistics) A unit of cargo capacity, based on the volume of a 20-foot-long (6.1 m) intermodal container.
    Synonyms:
    TEU

Forms of TEU

pluralTEUs

Questions about TEU

What is TEU the initialism of?
TEU is the initialism of twenty-foot equivalent unit.

Words near TEU in the dictionary

  1. Tetum
  2. Tetyana
  3. Tetzcoco
  4. Tetzlaff
  5. Tetzlaffs
  6. TEU
  7. teucalli
  8. teucallis
  9. Teucer
  10. teuch
  11. teuchat

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Adapted from Wiktionary: TEU (page history and authors); twenty-foot equivalent unit (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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