uae

noun

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, obsolete)Initialism of unrecoverable application error (the standard Microsoft Windows error message in Win16)

name

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of the United Arab Emirates: a country in West Asia, in the Middle East.

   “Kuwait immediately put its small forces on alert (although it did not request US help). The UAE, whose offshore oil rigs Baghdad had attacked during the Iran-Iraq war, followed suit on July 22, but they also asked us to send aerial tankers and participate in a joint military exercise.”

   “US-Gulf relations have improved significantly since Trump returned to office. Frustrated at the perceived lack of US interest in their needs under the Biden administration, Saudi Arabia and the UAE had sought to diversify their military, technological and economic ties.”

2. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of Unix Amiga emulator, software to emulate the Commodore Amiga computer.