# OBE

Pronunciation: say "oh-bee-EE" US /ˌoʊ bi ˈi/, UK /ˌəʊ biː ˈiː/

## Noun

1. Initialism of Officer of the Order of the British Empire. — Initialism of Officer of the Order of the British Empire.
   - Simple: Initialism of Officer of the Order of the British Empire. It is a British honor given to a person for good work.
   - _The retired headmistress received an OBE in the New Year Honours._
   - _She was made an OBE for her work with children's charities._
2. Initialism of out-of-body experience. — Initialism of out-of-body experience.
   - Simple: Initialism of out-of-body experience. It means the feeling of floating outside your own body.
   - _He reported an OBE in which he seemed to drift toward the ceiling._
   - _Some meditators claim to trigger an OBE through deep relaxation._
3. Initialism of outcome-based education. — Initialism of outcome-based education.
   - Simple: Initialism of outcome-based education. It is a way of teaching that focuses on what students can actually do.
   - _The district adopted OBE to measure student progress against clear standards._
   - _Critics argued that OBE placed too much weight on standardized targets._
5. Initialism of operating-basis earthquake. — Initialism of operating-basis earthquake.
   - Simple: Initialism of operating-basis earthquake. It is the size of earthquake a plant must keep working through safely.
   - _The facility must remain fully operational during an OBE._
   - _Seismic analysts set the OBE based on the regional fault history._
10. Initialism of one big explanation. — Initialism of one big explanation.
   - Simple: Initialism of one big explanation. It means trying to explain everything with a single idea.
   - _The columnist warned against reaching for an OBE when the causes were tangled._
   - _Every panelist offered a different OBE for the market crash._
11. Initialism of out-of-buggy experience. — Initialism of out-of-buggy experience.
   - Simple: Initialism of out-of-buggy experience. It is a joking way to say a kite-buggy rider was thrown out.
   - _He posted a clip of his OBE after a hard gust flipped the rig._
   - _Newcomers to the dunes usually collect at least one OBE._

## Adjective

4. Initialism of overcome / overtaken by events, meaning rendered obsolete by developments. — Initialism of overcome / overtaken by events (i.e., now obsolete).
   - Simple: Initialism of overcome by events. It marks a plan or report that no longer matters because things have changed.
   - _Half the action items were OBE before the meeting even started._
   - _The contingency plan became OBE once the deadline was scrapped._

## Proper noun

6. Initialism of Office of Bilingual Education. — Initialism of Office of Bilingual Education.
   - Simple: Initialism of Office of Bilingual Education. It is a government office that supports teaching in two languages.
   - _The OBE issued new guidelines for dual-language classrooms._
   - _Districts applied to the OBE for federal language grants._
7. Initialism of Oregon Board of Education. — Initialism of Oregon Board of Education.
   - Simple: Initialism of Oregon Board of Education. It is the group that sets school rules in Oregon.
   - _The OBE voted to revise the state's testing schedule._
   - _Superintendents presented their budgets to the OBE in March._
8. Initialism of Ottawa Board Of Education. — Initialism of Ottawa Board Of Education.
   - Simple: Initialism of Ottawa Board Of Education. It is the group that once ran public schools in Ottawa.
   - _The OBE oversaw hiring and curriculum across the city's schools._
   - _Records from the OBE were transferred when the boards amalgamated._
9. Initialism of Office of Business Economics, now the BEA. *(US)* — Initialism of Office of Business Economics, now BEA.
   - Simple: Initialism of Office of Business Economics. It was an old US agency that tracked the economy and is now called the BEA.
   - _The OBE compiled national income statistics throughout the postwar years._
   - _Analysts at the OBE tracked industrial output before the agency was renamed._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/obe (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).