OWS
Proper noun
Meaning
OWS
Initialism of Occupy Wall Street: a protest movement that began in 2011 in New York City's Wall Street financial district, primarily opposing social and economic inequality, greed, corruption and the influence of corporations on government.
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Examples
As of March 2018, Huawei has deployed the OWS platform in over 130 networks to automate processes, including work orders for network faults and the intelligent dispatch of field maintenance engineers.
Vince is a working-class lefty, remobilized by the OWS movement and by his wife's long struggle as the Democratic chief of a county commission loaded with Republicans.
If the OWS hones its demands and actually becomes something other than a media circus sideshow, the police may borrow tactics from Australia in an effort to blunt the protests and any meaningful change.
Rape, rats, drugs, mayhem and even murder was the legacy of OWS Act I before they hibernated resting for a spring comeback.
The transition from implicit to explicit and widely disseminated left systemic criticisms of capitalism is an important achievement of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement since the autumn of 2011.