Definition of "abbreviated" []

• Shortened; made briefer. (adjective)
• Relatively short; shorter than normal, or compared to others. (adjective)
• Simple past tense and past participle of abbreviate. (verb)

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• "Unfortunately, the overwhelming majority of Floridians with financial means and political clout with the GOP power structure have bought into this increasingly popular, albeit wrongheaded, system of what I call abbreviated education on the cheap."
• "The acronym abbreviated two Russian words, Avtomat Kalashnikova, the automatic by Kalashnikov, a nod to Senior Sergeant Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov, a twenty-nine-year-old former tank commander to whom the army and the Communist Party formally attributed the weapon’s design."
• "Taken as a whole, these work represent the captured moments of stillness, where the corporeal world merges - in abbreviated gestures - with the spiritual."