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de
1[ duh; French duh; Spanish de; Portuguese di ]
preposition
- from; of (used in French, Spanish, and Portuguese personal names, originally to indicate place of origin):
Comte de Rochambeau; Don Ricardo de Aragón.
DE
2abbreviation for
- Delaware (approved especially for use with zip code).
de'
3[ duh; Italian de ]
preposition
- dei (used in Italian names as an elided form of dei ):
de' Medici.
de-
4D.E.
5abbreviation for
- Doctor of Engineering.
- driver education.
de
1the internet domain name for
- Germany
de-
2prefix forming verbs and verbal derivatives
- removal of or from something specified
dethrone
deforest
- reversal of something
decode
desegregate
decompose
- departure from
decamp
DE
3abbreviation for
- (formerly in Britain) Department of Employment
- Delaware
de
4/ də /
(no translation)
- of; from: occurring as part of some personal names and originally indicating place of origin
Simon de Montfort
D'Arcy
de la Mare
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He worked for a hedge fund, D.E. Shaw, where he made a ton of money.
Summers had a brief, lucrative part-time gig last decade at hedge fund D.E. Shaw.
In 1994, Bezos took his wife, left a cushy job as vice president of hedge fund D.E. Shaw, and went west.
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