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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
bjs is a noun meaning "the agency in the Department of Justice that is the primary source of criminal justice statistics for federal and local policy makers". It carries one recorded sense.
the agency in the Department of Justice that is the primary source of criminal justice statistics for federal and local policy makers
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bjs come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.