The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 13 plus 1 letter word ABBREVIATION} –
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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What does ABBREVIATION} – mean?
ABBREVIATION} – noun- The result of shortening or reducing; abridgment.
- A shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase, used to represent the whole, utilizing omission of letters, and sometimes substitution of letters, or duplication of initial letters to signify plurality, including signs such as +, =, @.
- The process of abbreviating.
- A notation used in music score to denote a direction, as pp or mf.
- One or more dashes through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, demisemiquavers, or hemidemisemiquavers.
- Any convenient short form used as a substitution for an understood or inferred whole.
- Loss during evolution of the final stages of the ancestral ontogenetic pattern.
- Reduction to lower terms, as a fraction.