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- APO—Army post office (no periods)
- App. D.C.—District of Columbia
- Appeal Cases
- App. Div.—Appellate Division
- APPR—Army package power reactor
- approx.—approximately
- ARC—American Red Cross
- ARS—Agricultural Research Service
- ASCS—Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
- ASME—American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- A.S.N.—Army service number
- ASTM—American Society for Testing and Materials
- ATM—automatic teller machine
- AtL—Atlantic Reporter; A.2d, Atlantic Reporter, second series
- AUS—Army of the United States
- Ave.—avenue
- AWACS—airborne warning and control system
- AWOL—absent without leave
- B.A. or A.B.—bachelor of arts
- BBB—Better Business Bureau
- B.C.—before Christ (1200 B.C.)
- B.C.E.—Before Common Era
- BCG—(bacillus Calmette-Guerin) antituberculosis vaccine
- bf.—boldface
- BGN—Board on (not of) Geographic Names
- BIA—Bureau of Indian Affairs
- BIS—Bank for International Settlements
- Blatch. Pr. Cas.—Blatchford's Prize Cases
- Bldg.—building
- B. Lit(t). or Lit(t).B.—bachelor of literature
- BLM—Bureau of Land Management
- BLS—Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Blvd.—boulevard
- b.o.—buyer's option
- B.S. or B.Sc.—bachelor of science
- c. and s.c.—caps and small caps
- ca.—(circa) about
- ca—centiare
- CACM—Central American
- Common Market
- CAD—computer-aided design
- CAP—Civil Air Patrol
- CARE—Cooperative for American Remittances to Everywhere, Inc.
- CAT scan—computerized axial tomography
- CCA.—Circuit Court of Appeals
- CCC—Commodity Credit Corporation
- CCITT—Consultative Committee for International Telegraphy and Telephony
- CCls.—Court of Claims
- C.Cls.R.—Court of Claims Reports
- C.C.P.A.—Court of Customs and Patents Appeals
- CCR—Commission on Civil Rights
- CDC—Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- CE.—Common Era
- CEA—Council of Economic Advisers
- cf—(confer) compare or see
- CFR—Code of Federal Regulations
- CFR Supp.—Code of Federal Regulations Supplement
- CHAMPUS—Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services
- CIA—Central Intelligence Agency
- CIC—Counterintelligence Corps
- CT.—(corpus juris) body of law; Chief Justice
