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MEU
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MEUMarine Expeditionary Unit
MEUMobile Expansion Unit
MEUMaximum Expected Utility (philosophy, economics)
MEUModern English Usage
MEUMunicipal Employees Union
MEUMain Electronics Unit
MEUMultibay Expansion Unit (Compaq)
MEUMemory Expansion Unit
MEUMission Essential Unit
MEUMissile Echo Unit


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Fowler in the equally august Modern English Usage (Oxford 1926) states that "the agent termination -er can be added to any English verb.
Puzzlemints by Anil / Word Ways
District line from Wimbledon, turning the pages of Fowler's Modern English Usage after a minor spat with an editor over the distinction between a
Of gerunds, participles and other felicities by The Evening Standard (London, England)
I also discovered, on turning as one always ought to do in these matters to Fowler's Modern English Usage - presided over nowadays by RW Burchfield - that criticism, or, as he adds, ridicule, of unattached participles only began around a century ago.
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