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Princeton's WordNet

  1. europium, Eu, atomic number 63noun

    a bivalent and trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group

  2. European Union, EU, European Community, EC, European Economic Community, EEC, Common Market, Europenoun

    an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members

    "he tried to take Britain into the Europen Union"

GCIDE

  1. Eunoun

    the chemical symbol for Europium, an element with atomic number 63 and atomic weight 151.96.

Wikipedia

  1. Eu

    The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of 27 member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of 4,233,255.3 km2 (1,634,469.0 sq mi) and an estimated total population of nearly 447 million. The EU has often been described as a sui generis political entity (without precedent or comparison) combining the characteristics of both a federation and a confederation.Containing 5.8 per cent of the world population in 2020, the EU generated a nominal gross domestic product (GDP) of around US$17.1 trillion in 2021, constituting approximately 18 per cent of global nominal GDP. Additionally, all EU states but Bulgaria have a very high Human Development Index according to the United Nations Development Programme. Its cornerstone, the Customs Union, paved the way to establishing an internal single market based on standardised legal framework and legislation that applies in all member states in those matters, and only those matters, where the states have agreed to act as one. EU policies aim to ensure the free movement of people, goods, services and capital within the internal market; enact legislation in justice and home affairs; and maintain common policies on trade, agriculture, fisheries and regional development. Passport controls have been abolished for travel within the Schengen Area. The eurozone is a group composed of the 20 EU member states that have fully implemented the economic and monetary union and use the euro currency. Through the Common Foreign and Security Policy, the union has developed a role in external relations and defence. It maintains permanent diplomatic missions throughout the world and represents itself at the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, the G7 and the G20. Due to its global influence, the European Union has been described by some scholars as an emerging superpower.The union was established along with its citizenship when the Maastricht Treaty came into force in 1993, and was subsequently incorporated as an international law juridical person upon entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon in 2009, but its beginnings may be traced to its earliest predecessors incorporated primarily by a group of founding states known as the Inner Six (Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and West Germany) at the start of modern institutionalised European integration in 1948 and onwards, namely to the Western Union (WU, 1954 renamed Western European Union, WEU), the International Authority for the Ruhr (IAR), the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), the European Economic Community (EEC, 1993 renamed European Community, EC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom), established, respectively, by the 1948 Treaty of Brussels, the 1948 London Six-Power Conference, the 1951 Treaty of Paris, the 1957 Treaty of Rome and the 1957 Euratom Treaty. These increasingly amalgamated bodies later known collectively as the European Communities have grown since, along with their legal successor, the EU, both in size through accessions of further 21 states as well as in power through acquisitions of various policy areas to their remit by the virtue of the abovementioned treaties, as well as numerous other ones, such as the Modified Brussels Treaty, the Merger Treaty, the Single European Act, the Treaty of Amsterdam and the Treaty of Nice. In 2012, the EU was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.After the creation by six states, 22 other states joined the union in 1973–2013. The United Kingdom became the only member state to leave the EU in 2020; ten countries are aspiring or negotiating to join it.

ChatGPT

  1. eu

    "EU" typically refers to the European Union, a political and economic union of 27 member states that are located primarily in Europe. It includes a multitude of institutions including the European Commission, the Council of the European Union, the European Council, the Court of Justice of the European Union, and the European Central Bank. The EU implements policies concerning the single market, competition, agriculture, fisheries, and regional development. Member states also agree to uphold shared values including human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, and rule of law.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Eu

    a prefix used frequently in composition, signifying well, good, advantageous; -- the opposite of dys-

  2. Etymology: [Gr. e'y^ well, orig. neut. of e'y`s good; prob. connected with Skr. su, from the same root as E. is; or with Skr. vasu good, prob. fr. the same root as E. was.]

Wikidata

  1. eu

    .eu is the country code top-level domain for the European Union. Launched on 7 December 2005, the domain is available for organisations in and residents of EU member states. The TLD is administered by EURid, a consortium originally consisting of the national ccTLD registry operators of Belgium, Sweden, and Italy, joined later by the national registry operator of the Czech Republic. Trademark owners were able to submit registrations through a sunrise period, in an effort to prevent cybersquatting. Full registration started on 7 April 2006.

Editors Contribution

  1. EU

    Acronym for European Union.

    EU is acronym for the European Union.


    Submitted by MaryC on July 16, 2020  

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. EU

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Eu is ranked #135593 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Eu surname appeared 124 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Eu.

    75% or 93 total occurrences were Asian.
    9.6% or 12 total occurrences were White.
    7.2% or 9 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    4.8% or 6 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of EU in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of EU in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

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