| Acronym | Definition |
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| CoW | Control of Work |
| CoW | Case of the Week |
| CoW | Citizen of the World |
| CoW | Committee of the Whole |
| CoW | Can Of Worms |
| CoW | Council of War |
| CoW | Covenant of Works (theology) |
| CoW | Cream of Wheat (food) |
| CoW | Circle of Willis |
| CoW | City of Windhoek (Namibia) |
| CoW | Calculus on the Web (Temple University) |
| CoW | Cost of War (US DoD) |
| CoW | Copy-On-Write |
| CoW | Certificate of Waiver (various locations) |
| CoW | City of Wanneroo (Australia) |
| CoW | Coalition of the Willing |
| CoW | City of Westminster (Westminster, Colorado and UK) |
| CoW | Character Oriented Windows |
| CoW | Copy on Write |
| CoW | California, Oregon, Washington |
| CoW | Casualty of War |
| CoW | Crude Oil Washing |
| CoW | College of Wooster |
| CoW | Computer On Wheels (DeVry Institute of Technology) |
| CoW | Clerk of Works (UK construction inspector) |
| CoW | Cluster of Workstations (UW-Madison) |
| CoW | Cost of Waste (financial management) |
| CoW | Classroom on Wheels |
| CoW | Correlates of War Project (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) |
| CoW | Chief Of the Watch |
| CoW | Crush of the Week (also seen as COTW) |
| CoW | Cell-site On Wheels (cellular emergency services) |
| CoW | Cerritos on Wheels (public transportation system; California) |
| CoW | Container On Wheels |
| CoW | Clinic on Wheels |
| CoW | Coffee of the Week (Starbucks) |
| CoW | Council of Wyrms (gaming) |
| CoW | Commanding Officer's Wife |
| CoW | Control of Well (energy insurance) |
| CoW | Creating Original Work (Playwrights Horizons Theater School) |
| CoW | Computer Originated World (BBC-1 TV ident in the 1980s) |
| CoW | Critical Ordinary Watercourse (small watercourse prone to flooding) |
| CoW | Cinema on the Web |
| CoW | Character-Oriented Windows interface (Microsoft) |
| CoW | Chilled Out Worms (gaming clan) |
| CoW | Cambridge, Oxford or Warwick (seminar) |
| CoW | Coldworked; Not Furnace-Sensitized and Welded |
| CoW | Career Opportunity Week |
| CoW | Collectible of the Week |
| CoW | Chairman of the Week |
| CoW | Carry Over Work |
| CoW | Church of Walt (Disneyland, CA) |
| CoW | Customer Owned Warehouse |
| CoW | Critical Online Window |