ons

verb

1. (Malaysia, Singapore, colloquial, form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person, transitive)third-person singular simple present indicative of on

name

1. A female given name from Arabic.

   “Ons Jabeur has criticised Roland Garros for snubbing women’s tennis, saying “I don’t think they have daughters”.”

2. (UK, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Office for National Statistics.

   “The government’s statistics agency said suits[…] were not bought often enough to make it into the basket of 733 representative goods and services selected to measure the UK’s cost of living. They have been replaced in the ONS basket with a “formal jacket or blazer”.”

   “The ONS has been building up a new index, the “transformed labour Market Survey”, to replace the LFS. But repeated twists and tweaks mean it may not be ready to launch until 2027.”