Proper noun
(the) U.K.
(law) Abbreviation of United Kingdom.
In the U.K. the far Right is a stain on society and there is a cultural resistance to it. Neil Kinnock
People in the U.K. cannot understand whether Blair has lost his mind or whether his ambition to be the second-most-powerful man in the world made him lose his mind. Bianca Jagger
I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting. Britt Ekland
I guess if you split the difference between the U.K. and the U.S., you would get Canada. But that's just due to proximity. Just because of distance, we get a lot more cultural spillover from America. Chad Kroeger
'Slumdog' was my first movie, and I had never been to India before - I was just a teenager in the U.K. with my headphones and my Nike shoes. What did I know about growing up in a slum? Dev Patel
Successive governments in the U.K. have worked to create a more flexible labour market, which also meant labour insecurity. They allowed wages to drop and non-wage benefits to shrivel, creating worse inequality than statistics reveal. Guy Standing