OB

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ob"

English

Noun

OB (countable and uncountable, plural OBs)

1. (sports) Initialism of Olympic best.

   Coordinate terms: OR, PB, SB, WB

2. (television, radio) Initialism of outside broadcast.
3. (television, radio) Initialism of outside broadcasting.
4. Initialism of old boy. (a male graduate; also a CB radio operator's term of address for a male)
5. Abbreviation of obstetrician.
   • 1989, Contemporary Obstetrics-gynecology, volume 33, page 200:

     One woman in ten is at risk — yet one-third of all women over 50 have never had a mammo! By making Pap tests routine, OBs and GYNs have saved many lives.

6. Abbreviation of obstetrics.
7. Abbreviation of Old Babylonian.

Adjective

OB (not comparable)

1. Abbreviation of obstetric.
2. (golf) Initialism of out of bounds.
3. Abbreviation of obligatory. (as in "ob. link" on Usenet) (see ObLink at c2.com; see also ob-)
4. Abbreviation of Old Babylonian.

Derived terms

• OB marker

Anagrams

• BO, Bo, bo

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oːˈbeː/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

OB m (strong, genitive OBs, plural OBs)

1. Abbreviation of Oberbürgermeister.
2. Abbreviation of Oberbefehlshaber.
3. Abbreviation of Oberbootsmann.

Japanese

Etymology

From English OB (“old boy”).

Noun

OB(オービー) • (ōbī) 

1. male graduate

   Synonym: 卒業生

Related terms

• OG (OG)

Latin

Noun

OB

1. (money) Abbreviation of obryzum, pure gold, refined gold.
   • 4th century coinage mint marks:

     CONOB [Constantinopoli obryzum]

     CONOB [pure gold, Constantinople mint]

Coordinate terms

• PS (pure silver)

Swedish

Alternative forms

• ob

Noun

OB n

1. Abbreviation of obekväm arbetstid (“unsocial hours; shift differential”, literally “inconvenient working hours”).
   • 2018 May 31, Jenny Kallin, “Stockholm inför dubbelt natt-OB [Stockholm introduces double night supplement]”, in Vårdfokus:

     Dubbelt OB, som arbetsgivaren nu väljer att sätta in, ser ut att lösa de flesta treskiftstilläggen som finns idag, […] Men helt nöjd är hon inte. För det första vill hon att dubbelt OB ska in i kollektivavtalet och inte vara ett villkor som arbetsgivaren har möjlighet att plötsligt säga upp.

     Double unsocial hours supplement, which the employer is now choosing to implement, seems to address most of the current three-shift supplements, […] But she isn’t completely satisfied. First of all, she wants the double unsocial hours supplement to be included in the collective agreement and not be a condition that the employer can suddenly terminate.

   • 2021 June 23, Per Hagström, “Så vill arbetsgivaren ändra ob-tillägget [So the employer wants to change the unsocial hours supplement]”, in Polistidningen:

     Förutom att höja ob:et vill ni använda de 360 miljonerna till den nya Kuvsystematiken för poliser som jobbar lokalt i yttre tjänst och för att höja ingångslöner för poliser i Stockholm.

     In addition to raising the unsocial hours allowance, you want to use the 360 million for the new career and development pathways system for police officers working locally in field service and to raise starting salaries for police officers in Stockholm.

Declension

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Derived terms

• natt-OB (“night supplement”)
• OB-tillägg (“unsocial hours supplement”)
• OB-villkor (“unsocial hours conditions”)

See also

• ÖB (“supreme commander”)