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TOS

/tiː əʊ ɛs/

TOS is the initialism of terms of service.

TOS is the initialism of thoracic outlet syndrome.

TOS is the initialism of taken on strength.

TOS is the initialism of the old series or the original series.

Meaning of terms of service

Noun

terms of service pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) The terms, conditions, or restrictions under which a person, commonly called an end user, may or may not utilize the aspects of a particular service.

Meaning of thoracic outlet syndrome

Noun

thoracic outlet syndrome (countable and uncountable, plural thoracic outlet syndromes)

  1. A condition involving compression of the nerves, arteries or veins in the passageway from the lower neck to the armpit.

Verb

TOS (third-person singular simple present TOSes, present participle TOSing, simple past and past participle TOSed or TOS'd)

  1. (Internet, dated, transitive) To report another user for a real or imagined terms of service violation.
    • If you want to join this riot, we urge you to! You wont have to worry about being TOSed or reported because there will be no Guides online! So do whatever you want—punt, scroll, tos, just turn AOL into a war zone!2003, Michael Newton, The Encyclopedia of High-tech Crime and Crime-fighting, AOL Riot on June 1, 1998, page 21

Noun (1) capitalized: TOs

TOs

  1. (plural) plural of TO

Noun (2) capitalized: ToS

ToS

  1. Alternative letter-case form of TOS (“terms of service”).
    • Clearly, from Facebook’s ToS, neither sexting nor bullying will be tolerated on their network.2016, Bernadette H. Schell, Online Health and Safety: From Cyberbullying to Internet Addiction: From Cyberbullying to Internet Addiction, Greenwood, →ISBN, page 178
    • Thus, crawlers that do not obey a website’s posted robots.txt file may be breaching the site’s ToS.2020, Alan Mislove, Christo Wilson, “Practitioner’s Guide to Ethical Web Data Collection”, in Brooke Foucault Welles, Sandra González-Bailón, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Networked Communication...

Antonyms of TOS

Forms of TOS

Noun
pluralTOSs
Verb
third-person singular presentTOSes
present participleTOSing
past participleTOSed
pastTOSed
past participleTOS'd
pastTOS'd

Phrases with TOS

Questions about TOS

What does TOS mean?
TOS means to report another user for a real or imagined terms of service violation.
What is TOS the initialism of?
TOS is the initialism of terms of service.
What part of speech is TOS?
TOS can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce TOS?
TOS is pronounced /tiː əʊ ɛs/.
What is the past tense of TOS?
The past tense of TOS is TOSed.

Words near TOS in the dictionary

  1. toryizing
  2. torymid
  3. torymids
  4. Toryshire
  5. Torzhok
  6. TOS
  7. tos and fros
  8. tosa
  9. Tosa Bay
  10. Tosado
  11. Tosados

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: TOS (page history and authors); TOs (page history and authors); ToS (page history and authors); terms of service (page history and authors); thoracic outlet syndrome (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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