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yoe

yoe is the alternative form of yowe.

Meaning of yowe

Noun

yowe (plural yowes)

  1. (Scotland, UK, dialectal) A ewe; a female sheep.
    • The ram was marked wi' keel at the reet o' the tail an' the yowes upon their hips.1902, James Thomson, Recollections of a Speyside parish

Noun capitalized: YOE

YOE pl (plural only)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism, plural, plural-only) Initialism of years of experience.
    • The use of YOE as a metric comes from the idea that the longer you do something, the better you get at it. Another way of putting that is "practice makes perfect." Talking about YOE makes it easy to quantify a candidate’s experience and compare it against others.2020 August 10, Alex Karp, “Let’s Stop Talking About YOE”, in Medium, archived from the original on 08 Jan 2023

Forms of yoe

pluralyoes

Words that rhyme with yoe

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Questions about yoe

What is yoe the alternative form of?
Yoe is the alternative form of yowe.
What part of speech is yoe?
Yoe is a noun.
What is the plural of yoe?
The plural of yoe is yoes.

Words near yoe in the dictionary

  1. yodlers
  2. yodles
  3. yodless
  4. yodling
  5. yods
  6. yoe
  7. Yoel
  8. Yoeme
  9. yoes
  10. Yoeseltse
  11. yoficate

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