BMT

English

Noun

BMT (countable and uncountable, plural BMTs)

1. (Singapore) Initialism of basic military training, which includes physical training, where Singaporean males will learn basic skills of a soldier.
   • 2015 October 14, The Straits Times (Singapore):

     During the two-hour visit, Mr Ong was briefed by commanders on the BMT curriculum and observed recruits undergoing physical training and using tablets to learn how to strip and assemble their weapons.

   • 2014 July 27, The Straits Times (Singapore):

     At the start of BMT, he could manage just two chin-ups; at the end, he was doing more than 20. “My body has toned up a lot,” he says.

   • 2013 May 28, The Straits Times (Singapore):

     Bearing arms to defend the country is the primary goal of NS, and that should remain so by sending all recruits for BMT.

   • 2011 March 25, The New Paper (Singapore):

     Two years ago, Phua Shi Hao, 20, spent about $50 preparing for BMT on some of the smaller items at the army market.

   • 2009 March 9, The New Paper (Singapore):

     “He was a good pal in BMT, and very hardworking and promising”.

2. (medicine) Initialism of bone marrow transplant or bone marrow transplantation.
   • 2005, Donald Hall, The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 102:

     We knew: People die during the first hundred days of a BMT. Although we would fly to Seattle together, a month later I might bring Jane home in a box—after the new marrow failed to engraft; after an unstoppable infection with no immune system; after liver failure when the new marrow attacked its stranger-body.

Proper noun

BMT

1. Initialism of Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation.

See also

• history of Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation

Anagrams

• BTM, MBT, MTB, Mtb, TBM, TMB