Usually means: Old programming language for business applications.
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We found 40 dictionaries that define the word cobol:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. COBOL, Cobol: Merriam-Webster
  2. COBOL: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. COBOL: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. COBOL: Collins English Dictionary
  5. COBOL: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cobol, cobol: Wordnik
  7. COBOL, Cobol, cobol: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. COBOL, Cobol: Wiktionary
  9. COBOL: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. COBOL: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. COBOL: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. COBOL: Dictionary.com
  13. COBOL: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. COBOL, Cobol: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Cobol: Rhymezone
  16. COBOL: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  17. cobol: FreeDictionary.org
  18. cobol: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. COBOL: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. cobol: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  21. COBOL: Merriam-Webster

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. COBOL: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. COBOL: CCI Computer
  3. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  4. CNET Internet Glossary (No longer online)
  5. COBOL: Dictionary of Programming Languages
  6. Webopedia (No longer online)
  7. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  8. COBOL (programming language), COBOL: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. COBOL (programming language), COBOL: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. COBOL: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. COBOL: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. COBOL: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Cobol)

noun:  A programming language developed in the late 1950s especially for business applications.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of COBOL [A programming language developed in the late 1950s especially for business applications.]

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