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This saves the recipient's time because they then do not have to open the email. NB, meaning Note Well. Abbreviation of Latin nota bene. Used before a piece of important information to make readers notice it. NMP, meaning Not My Problem. Used in a reply to indicate that the previous email has been ignored. NMS, meaning Not Mind-Safe. Used to ...
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.
The subject of an e-mail message may contain such an abbreviation to signify that all content is in the subject line so that the message itself does not need to be opened (e.g., "No classes Monday (EOM)" or "Midterm delayed <EOM>"). This practice can save the time of the receiver and has been recommended to increase productivity.
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COB – Chief Of the Boat (Chief Petty Officer in charge of the Boat usually a Master Chief (USN Submariner Terminology)) CoB – Close of Business (End of the duty day) COCOM – Combatant Commander; CODELS – Congressional Delegations; COL – Colonel; COMINT – Communications Intelligence; COMPACFLT – Commander, Pacific Fleet (U.S. Navy)
A morpheme will sometimes be used as its own gloss. This is typically done when it is the topic of discussion, and the author wishes it to be immediately recognized in the gloss among other morphemes with similar meanings, or when it has multiple or subtle meanings that would be impractical to gloss with a single conventional abbreviation.