Rego vs Relo - What's the difference?
rego | relo |
(uncountable, colloquial, Australia, New Zealand) Registration for a motor vehicle.
* 2003 , Australian Senate, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) ,
* 2007 , Archie Gerzee, WOW! Tales of a Larrikin Adventurer ,
* 2008 , Ryan Ver Berkmoes, Peter Dragicevich, Justin Flynn, Paul Harding, East Coast Australia ,
(uncountable, colloquial, Australia, New Zealand) The fee required for such registration.
(countable, colloquial, Australia, New Zealand) The registration number of a motor vehicle, used by police to access registration details such as the identity of the owner.
* 1984 , Renfrey Clarke, The Picket: Tasmanian Mine Workers Defend Their Jobs ,
* 2010 , Alex Palmer, The Labyrinth of Drowning , HarperCollins Australia,
(Australian, colloquial, informal) A relative.
* 2001 , John Larkin, Nostradamus and Instant Noodles , 2012,
* 2006 , Tony Davis, Step On It!: A Wild Ride Through the Motor Age , Random House Australia,
* 2010 , Stefan Korn, Scott Lancaster, Eric Mooij, Being a Great Dad For Dummies , Australian & New Zealand Edition,
As a verb rego
is .As a noun relo is
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English
Noun
(en-noun)- The police pulled me over for driving with an expired rego .
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- You might give these people a badge or some livery for their boat and you can give them a discount on the rego of their boat.
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- They gave us permission to drive in Australia under the British rego , meaning we still had our GB number plates.
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- When you come to buy or sell a car, every state has its own regulations, particularly with rego (registration).
- David couldn?t drive his car as he hadn?t paid his rego .
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- “They also got the regos of the cars. There were two commercial travelers whose cars were trapped inside by the pickets, and they got hit with writs.”
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- A line of cars was parked along one side, presumably belonging to the sex workers and their clients. ‘Get their regos ,’ Borghini said to one of his people.
Anagrams
* * * * ----relo
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Alternative forms
* relloNoun
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- ‘Anyway, sorry I?m late,’ said Ian. ‘Wanted to hang with the relos for a bit.’
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- It was a journey not completed until after dark (there were no headlights) and Bertha was too tired to visit her relos in Pforzheim by the time she arrived.
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- Just ask the relos how often they may want to do it, because you don?t want babysitting to become too much of a chore for them.
