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NIS

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What does NIS mean?

noun

  1. A nix; a hobgoblin, especially one that resides in a farm house.
  2. Initialism of Network Information Service.

adjective

  1. Initialism of new in shrink.
More meanings (4)

proper noun

  1. Initialism of Naftna Industrija Srbije, a Serbian multinational oil and gas company.
  2. Initialism of National Intelligence Service, an agency of the South African government from 1980 to 1994.
  3. Initialism of National Intelligence Service, the current South Korean counterintelligence agency.

contraction

  1. (obsolete) Contraction of ne is
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So shouting to John Jones, “Nis gallav gerdded rhaid rhedeg,” I set off running down the pass.
George BorrowWild Wales: Its People, Language and SceneryProject Gutenberg ebook #648
Nor other thing nis in your remembraunce, As thinketh me, but only your plesaunce.
Geoffrey ChaucerTroilus and CriseydeProject Gutenberg ebook #257