| Acronym | Definition |
|---|
| CWS | Chicago White Sox |
| CWS | College World Series |
| CWS | Church World Service |
| CWS | Child Welfare Services |
| CWS | Canadian Wildlife Service |
| CWS | Community Water System (EPA) |
| CWS | Canada-Wide Standard |
| CWS | Compressed Work Schedule |
| CWS | Chemical Warfare Service |
| CWS | Certified Wound Specialist |
| CWS | Collision Warning System |
| CWS | Control Wheel Steering (aviation) |
| CWS | Challenging White Supremacy (Workshop; San Francisco, CA) |
| CWS | Certified Water Specialist (National Water Quality Association) |
| CWS | Cooperative Wholesale Society (UK) |
| CWS | Chilled Water System |
| CWS | Cold Water Soluble |
| CWS | Chilled Water Supply |
| CWS | Community Work Service (criminal justice) |
| CWS | Cooling Water System |
| CWS | Centronics Web Systems |
| CWS | Child Work Space (programming) |
| CWS | Cold Water Supply |
| CWS | Caution and Warning System |
| CWS | Colorado Watercolor Society |
| CWS | Cooling Water Supply |
| CWS | Commander's Weapon Station |
| CWS | Chicago Wedding Services (Oak Forest, IL) |
| CWS | Circulating Water System |
| CWS | Cotton Wool Spot (optometry) |
| CWS | Chicks with Sticks (female hockey players) |
| CWS | Catholic Welfare Services |
| CWS | Command Work Station |
| CWS | Chesapeake Wildlife Sanctuary |
| CWS | Division of Child Welfare Services |
| CWS | Computers with Solutions |
| CWS | Container Weapon System |
| CWS | Candle Welfare Society |
| CWS | Correction Worksheet |
| CWS | Control and Warning System |
| CWS | Copper Wire Screen |
| CWS | Caution and Warning Status (NASA) |
| CWS | Combat Weather System |
| CWS | Collateral Workstation |
| CWS | Clearwater Systems LLC (Essex, CT) |
| CWS | Condensed Work Schedule |
| CWS | Containment Water Storage |
| CWS | Continental Wage Schedule |
| CWS | Contract Work Statement |
| CWS | Charles Wesley Singers |
| CWS | Capital Winds Symphony (metropolitan Washington, DC) |
| CWS | Carrollton Wind Symphony (Carrollton, TX) |
| CWS | Cobb Wind Symphony (Cobb County, GA) |
| CWS | Custom Wheel Solutions LLC (Greensboro, GA) |
| CWS | Combustion Workspace |
| CWS | Cool Web Search |
| CWS | Citrix Wan Scaler |
| CWS | Clustered Web Server |