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Used with a time indicator to inform the recipient that the sender needs a task to be completed within a certain deadline, e.g. AB+2 meaning Action By 2 days. AR, meaning Action Required. The recipient is informed that they are being given a task. CFI, meaning Copied For Information; COB, meaning Close Of Business (end of work day). Implying ...
initialism = an abbreviation pronounced wholly or partly using the names of its constituent letters, e.g., CD = compact disc, pronounced cee dee; pseudo-blend = an abbreviation whose extra or omitted letters mean that it cannot stand as a true acronym, initialism, or portmanteau (a word formed by combining two or more words).
Used as a common abbreviation for "number" in all forms of writing. op. cit. opere citato "(in) the work cited" Means in the same article, book or other reference work as was mentioned before. It is most often used in citations in a similar way to "ibid", though "ibid" would usually be followed by a page number. OV orthographiae variae
[4] [nb 2] Authors may more severely abbreviate glosses than is the norm, if they are particularly frequent within a text, e.g. IP rather than IMM.PST for 'immediate past'. This helps keep the gloss graphically aligned with the parsed text when the abbreviations are longer than the morphemes they gloss.
This list of style guide abbreviations provides the meanings of the abbreviations that are commonly used as short ways to refer to major style guides. They are used especially by editors communicating with other editors in manuscript queries, proof queries, marginalia , emails, message boards , and so on.
An acronym is sometimes considered to be an initialism that is pronounced as a word (e.g. NATO), as distinct from an initialism pronounced as a string of individual letters (e.g. "UN" for United Nations). In this document the term acronym includes initialisms. The term word acronym can be used to refer to acronyms which are not initialisms.
The prosecution is arguing that “YSL” also stands for “Young Slime Life,” a “criminal street gang.” During his opening remarks, Mr Steel discussed the alleged origins of “YSL.”
PIE, IATA airport code and FAA location identifier for St. Pete–Clearwater International Airport, Florida; Pie, in Spanish customary units a unit of length; Pie (loa), a type of spirit in Vodun/Voodoo religion; Pie Magazine, a Canadian luxury lifestyle magazine; PIE method (Problem, Intervention, Evaluation), a method of documentation in nursing