Usually means: Reduces length or form; summarizing.
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  1. abbreviatory: Collins English Dictionary
  2. abbreviatory: Wordnik
  3. abbreviatory: Wiktionary
  4. abbreviatory: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. Abbreviatory, abbreviatory: Dictionary.com
  6. Abbreviatory: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. abbreviatory: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Abbreviatory: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. abbreviatory: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. abbreviatory: FreeDictionary.org
  11. Abbreviatory: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. abbreviatory: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (abbreviatory)

▸ adjective:  Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging.

Similar:
abbreviated, short, compendious, abjective, shortsome, little, Curt, derogative, brevitic, succint, more...

Opposite:
expansive, extended, unabbreviated, full-length

Types:
initialism, acronym, more...

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Similar:
abbreviated, short, compendious, abjective, shortsome, little, Curt, derogative, brevitic, succint, more...

Opposite:
expansive, extended, unabbreviated, full-length

Types:
initialism, acronym, more...



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