["The Class III certification ensures that a reasonable search of all information known or otherwise available about the class III device and other similar legally marketed devices has been conducted.","Super great chance to grow your SEO skills and powers.","At least one valid email address is required.","Runners must also bring Cantrell an item that he needs.","Classes begin and end at the hours stated.","First In Last Out.","Incidentally, SECAM actually predated PAL, in concept at least.","Also good for sales and marketing campaigns that never seem to work.","TYCO is a diverse industrial corporation with a reputation for aggressive development based on making acquisitions.","At those checkpoints, racers are treated to luxuries like hot water and shelter.","Does the submission include clinical information?","Describes trustworthy people and organizations, especially when valuable and important responsibilities are being delegated or awarded.","Forget Everything And Run.","The word lade is preserved in the modern word laden, meaning loaded with.","TNA of some sort is generally considered essential for the planning and management of any level of useful training and development in organizational context.","Flexible and disparaging reference to a group of people deemed to be less intelligent or capable than those using the term.","Leave a good looking body.","We encourage sponsors to consult with us if it they wish to use a nonanimal testing method they believe is suitable, adequate, validated, and feasible.","Is the device implanted?","Sometimes weather station abbreviations seem created for the amusement of scientists.","MOPAR is the parts and service subsidiary of the Chrysler motor coporation, famous for its durable Plymouth cars.","If yes, does this device type require reprocessed validation data?","Take a look at some of the more creative examples.","This can be the responsibility of a supervisor, group leader, senior manager, executive, or more usually nowadays an HR or training department.","The very end of something.","This expression is in this listing for historical reference only and is not recommended for use anywhere.","See the pictures, kindly provided by Lorna.","Patronising alternative to HOPEFUL and TEPID.","Reference, apparently, to a certain type of human anxiety having little or no discernible cause.","When the flow of blood is too low to deliver enough oxygen and nutrients to vital organs such as the brain, heart, and kidneys; the organs do not function normally and may be permanently damaged.","Apoplexy, Epilepsy, Injury, Opium or other drugs, Uraemia, Dead Drunk and Diabetes.","New Way to Onboard.","You may also distribute this article on the Internet subject to the same conditions and provided you keep all links active.","The spleen is located in the LUQ of the abdomen.","Slide up any divs that are not the one to be toggled.","We were knackered after our goalkeeper left, mid season.","Emojis are a great way to add an emotional context to a text.","Super tough test today!","In the summary of your results and analysis, we recommend that you briefly present the data derived from testing in a clear and concise form, such as a table.","Sexy Women In Swissair Services Are Indeed Rare.","Match measurement words to their abbreviations.","Apparently the M first stood for Martin, after Martin Dougiamas, the originator of the Moodle system.","Resize the photos bigger than viewport.","This is a terrific acronym for emphasising and agreeing expectations of responsibility, capability, action plans, objectives, etc.","Early recollections of this acronyms welcome.","Standards Development and the Use of Standards in Regulatory Submissions Reviewed in CBER.","Instantaneously Companded Audio Multiplex.","You are not authorized to change state names.","The name of the operating system.","Expect to Leave the Terminal Alive.","Oops, I did not see your comment and I had already edited and fixed the errors earlier this morning for the record.","Perhaps the two feelings are related in some way.","Most of us experience being in this state at least a couple of times a week, especially Mondays after heavy weekend, or while captive in corporate presentations or boring training sessions.","FF is equal to a pure colour.","In social media marketing, ROI tends to be an elusive metric since revenue can be difficult to measure directly from social.","Widely used acronym promising a good deal, however see TANSTAAFL.","For this, we should credit the Romans.","Simple yet profoundly useful acronym for anyone involved in helping others to think and interpret rather than simply paraphrase or describe.","Derogatory US reference to unsophisticated folk supposed to inhabit static caravan sites, especially in the Southern USA.","Too Flipping Clever by Half.","Thanks N Roney, S Didlick, A Burger and the many others.","Normally shown as bullshit.","There was an error.","Task Oriented Instructional System.","You can unsubscribe at any time.","What would you like to do?","To work hard, to put in lots of effort.","Treatment of blood in the stool depends on the cause.","ACL injuries are one of the most common ligament injuries to the knee.","BODMAS, but extending the acronym to BODMAWLTR somewhat spoils the effect.","What does K means in Tik Tok?","Night stops were a rarity for BEA.","Ron and Hermione so hard.","Economy Airline Slows Your Journey Every Time.","And it would very likely mistake other records if the address included words that could be parsed into state names or abbreviations.","Roll On Roll Off.","Sometimes referred to as EPS.","It is always helpful to remember and allow for the ICABU factor.","Many Old Parts Assembled Recklessly.","Dayhoff was extremely active in the Biophysical Society, and served the society as both its secretary and president.","All they can manage is one letter, but their intentions are innocent.","Business Unit Leaders Leveraged High Intensity Training.","The best demonstrations of the Osintot principle are generally provided by leaders and politicians who believe they are somehow immune from its risks, or similarly protected or excused by their chosen god.","RISE seems obvious, natural, and logical, now that it has been created.","Personal Responsibility In Delivering Excellence.","HTML, normally representing the code which underpins the workings of much of what we see on the internet.","What do you mean by that?","And if you are a CEO and see a few SSDD posters appearing around the place then perhaps ask yourself why.","Click the help icon above to learn more.","UA is a typical part of a comprehensive physical examination.","Also a common subject area in meetings where the purpose and facilitation perhaps requires a more a positive focus or perspective.","Lovers code from way back.","Nigel Rees, the commentator and language expert refers to BOMFOG as an acronym for a pompous meaningless generality.","Apparently used in Los Angeles by nurses as a comment about less deserving patients.","RUQ of the abdomen.","From then on, you can use NASA instead.","The name of the primary instructor for the course.","South Georgia And Sandwich Isl.","Asking for help, clarification, or responding to other answers.","Below is a list of some of the most popular acronyms that are out there, and there meanings.","List of states, with uppercase and lowercase abbreviations.","Take the Tummy Troubles Quiz!","Good for Parts Only.","Sometimes the internet goes over our heads.","History and physical examination.","Avenue, Place, Road, Square, Boulevard, Terrace, Drive, Court, and Building, following a name or number, are abbreviated in footnotes, sidenotes, tables, leaderwork, and lists.","Coaching and motivational maxim.","Super demographics acronym, allegedly originally seen on the back of a caravan touring Australia; now much used at retirement parties.","What are you up to?","This acronym illustrates the immensely useful aspect of the acronym as a teaching and communications device, aside from its value as a branding method.","One of the great modern acronyms.","What Does K Mean in Money?","My father drove for United Van Lines for many years and other large transport services before that.","Knowledge, Attitude, Skills, Habits.","MM if they are getting info in that format from a bank and writing a story!","Why wait for someone else to give you the answers if you can work it out yourself?","Fornicates Regularly And Chain Smokes.","Aesthetic tutor based at the Royal College of Surgeons of England.","The Greeks would likewise show million as M, short for Mega.","Not A Team Operator.","Antidote acronym to KIPPERS.","What is data protection and why is it important?","Pants Off Legs Open.","For example, if a patient was about to undergo a surgical operation requiring general anesthesia, they may be required to avoid food or beverage prior to the procedure.","Append manufacturer to description.","Check to see if your package has arrived!","Lights On, Nobody In.","Healthcare acronym to describe an elderly person with no specific diagnosis, but just generally deteriorating.","Writing tools expanding menu.","Just here as an observer.","Well, in the old school, M was always used.","The originators wisely based the abbreviation on the key words only, ignoring the connecting words.","This American race takes competitors through Utah and Arizona, starting at one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World, the north rim of the Grand Canyon, and concludes at the sandstone cliffs of the Grand Staircase.","City trading floors and sales offices where such aggressive and competitive behaviours are part of the scene.","Eventually, when all we had were legs, we raced on those.","Product, Price, Promotion, Place.","Vital signs are stable.","Watch for this sign from your audience at your next presentation.","Headache symptoms vary with the headache type.","Political, Economic, Social, Technological.","Either version is actually a very useful analysis and interpretation tool for business and marketing situations.","Where does the Cockney Rhyming Slang Originate from?","Other online slang dictionaries and resources worth a visit.","If you want to find out what they mean, you are in the right place!","Federation Employment and Guidance Service, Inc.","The section number is used in combination with the CRN to create a unique identifier for each section.","London, but elsewhere for sure too.","In narrow columns in tables, however, the names of months may be abbreviated even if standing alone.","Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment.","Do I Know What I Am Doing?","Single And Desperate For A Baby.","Variation on the above theme.","This var stores the button that was clicked.","Content of Premarket Submissions for Management of Cybersecurity in Medical Devices.","British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons.","This is quite common when playing online games.","This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website.","Faecal remnants that have adhered to anal hairs.","Lorilyn Bailey, who contacted me to inform me of this; and indeed the original context was apparently the efficient management of email communications.","W\u00bd SE\u00bc SE\u00bc sec.","It can be helpful when in doubt, to take words at face value.","Already have an account?","These meanings are not true statements of fact.","Generally skills and knowledge are easier to develop and change than attitude and habits.","Other words are used for depending on the situation, listed in the SMARTER entry.","The TWAIN group iteself acknowledges that the expression continues to haunt the standard.","Now Scientists May Know What Came Next.","This domain has expired.","Evaluate, Plan, Action, Check, Amend.","Bad luck, an unfortunate setback.","New York City Health and Hospitals Corp.","HIPs lasted a few short years before the legislation was put into reverse and information requirements were greatly reduced.","Your email address will not be published.","Fresh Off the Boat.","CDC or any of its employees of the sponsors or the information and products presented on the website.","However any attachments to these abbreviations denoting multiples go in lower case, unless the standard abbreviation for the attachment is in upper case.","Check out our new transparency dashboard full of resources!","Informal acronym used by London Transport staff to describe certain types of visitor to London, particularly those struggling to comprehend the Underground system and blaming everyone but themselves for their confusion.","An actual texting etiquette has grown around the phenomenon of text messaging, and being at least a bit knowledgeable of this can be helpful when navigating this communication method.","Agency account managers are pretty amazing people, but they can only be as amazing as the training that they get from their seniors and their wider agency teams.","To steer clear of confusion with the intent of your messages, use more words; be sure you get your point across completely.","Greek mythology: Hestia is the Ancient Greek goddess of the hearth and home.","Essentially a maritime term, but actually transferable to anyone who blusters and blunders about, having no regard for the safety of others, and no control of the forces that they seek to dominate.","Clear incorrect browser versions.","To minimize confusion I would stick with K for a thousand.","For interfering bosses everywhere.","TODO: we should review the class names and whatnot in use here.","It can also mean drunk or stoned.","Low Decision Latitude among staff fundamentally undermines performance and welfare at work.","The essential element of all successful communications and organizational initiatives, and of all efforts towards persuasion, influence, facilitation and mediation.","Offers may be subject to change without notice.","If true this is indeed nice work if you can get it, although the likelihood is that most MEPs and MPs are good people doing a good job.","What are people saying about your brand or product?","IT and government sectors.","Assessment acronym for the numerically and motivationally challenged.","Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat.","This is my opinion; it is not legal advice, nor the view of my employer, and it may change tomorrow.","Theoretically also ten, twelve, thirteen, twenty or thirty children.","Imagine Any Great Employment Opportunities.","You now know what years of tradition have trained us to show one million dollars this way.","The advent of changing circumstances is not an excuse for poor planning.","There seems no earthly reason for this to be funny, but strangely to many, including me, it is.","Another Flipping Learning Opportunity.","Australian Hestia company is a leading bra maker.","Slang for elevated level of band forms of white blood cells.","American Pie, hence US spelling Mom instead of Mum.","Do you mean in the next week or the next month.","Please Let Me Know.","We recommend that you also provide a discussion of how this comparison supports substantial equivalence.","United States there is a company called CR England.","ALM Media Properties, LLC.","Training and presentations acronym to emphasise that vision is essential for creating unique solutions and development.","Man lebt nur einmal!","Is pain all in the brain?","Lucus manufacture automotive parts.","Obviously great for training sessions generally, also counselling, customer service, selling, etc, and relationships overall.","Likewise, we may quote you a single and aggregate contractor line of authority.","CSC company name, which properly stands for Computer Sciences Corporation.","Above the knee amputation.","As the printer cannot rewrite the copy, the author should supply these explanatory forms.","Aged, old, often implying passed its best.","The theoretical partner acronym HWMBO has for some reason never really caught on.","The MOFMOF principle and acronym are advocated by, and should be attributed to, Italian chef Antonio Carluccio.","There seems to be a fair bit of international agreement on the abbreviations of the elements of matter, ie, the substances that cannot be resolved into simpler substances by chemical means.","An acronym that stands for a series of four tax laws that also made changes to how retirement plans operate.","SMS is essentially a thing of the past in Latin America.","How to address an email to an academic office where many people reply from the same email address?","The SPOC acronym is a good example of a memorable and meaningful acronym which can be used to convey a helpful point or principle during a training session.","After Dinner I Did A Shit.","The SMARTER version below is more powerful and relevant for the moden world because it includes the essential philosophical aspect.","The hard and soft elements of the Total Quality Management model.","Covert IT technical support staff acronym to describe a human failing instead of equipment or software fault.","Find Inform Restrict Extinguish.","Arguable contradiction in terms, and companion acronym for TLA.","Buy One Get One For Free.","Government Employees Insurance Company.","Often used to answer a question without answering it directly.","Kent and East Sussex Railway.","Million when they wrote headlines.","Write the abbreviations for common time words, including months, days of the week, and smaller units of time.","London Transport staff to describe a person aggressively questioning staff and appearing not to understand the information or explanations provided.","Really Here In Name Only.","Popular on Instagram, this abbreviation often appears as a hashtag for those who want to show off their best photo of the day.","Technically only a physician can declare someone dead, so the paramedics use this acronym to get around the protocol, not least when absence of life would be obvious to even a blind gerbil.","Supratentorial means above the neck, so the acronym is a covert way to say that the illness is all in the imagination.","Nurses and healthcare staff acronym to describe test results that are within the normal range.","Indiana in that list.","Versatile training and planning acronym.","Know What I Am Doing.","We knocked back a few pints before the match.","IT and various other business and training fields, including funny lifestyle and social acronyms and abbreviations.","Soulja Boy, among other sources.","Identify, Design, Execute, Augment.","To beat up someone.","USA industry for health and safety training and promotion.","Runners will have to run in complete darkness, following the course by head torch, but will be able to sleep sometimes at research stations and lodges that are scattered across the course.","Nonlinear, Soft Matter Phys.","FOMO describes a type of social anxiety where you feel that if you miss an opportunity you might miss out on something great.","Generally the process of development is much strengthened using FOFO principles wherever possible.","The principle that the effectiveness of advertising can only be measured if the aims of the advertising are clearly specified before it takes place.","Ack to Dr Neale Roney.","Share This Record button.","She was well aware of the many challenges facing women in science, and worked hard to encourage and mentor women in scientific careers.","Math Central is supported by the University of Regina and The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences.","An acronym must be pronounceable, an abbreviation does not need to be.","You might see this acronym appear on tweets or Facebook posts, asking those who read it to give the post a like.","Did you spot a typo?","Teen mating terminology, apparently.","Ingvar Kamprad, from a place called Elmtaryd, in Agunnaryd, Sweden, founded the IKEA retail chain.","Garbage In Garbage Out.","Will Install Needless Data On Whole System.","Craigslist, Tinder, Zoosk and Match.","This refers to messages received in your private Twitter inbox.","Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.","Phosphorus, Sulfur Silicon Relat.","The American spelling is diarrhea, which is only marginally easier to remember.","Listening to the new Brian Regan CD!","Identify, Manage, Change, Improve, Show.","Piled Higher and Deeper.","Not safe for life.","Rolling On The Floor Laughing And.","Want to Vote on this Content?","Vietnam, Hungary, Iraq, New Zealand, or Ukraine.","US interpretations which perhaps provided the misguided inspiration for the wonderful UK notion that it is possible to improve something merely by measuring the hell out of it.","The sleds they pull with them contain food, cooking gear, clothes, sleeping kit and safety gear.","Receive your texts with the belief that the sender has good intentions.","Official news from Harvard University about science, medicine, art, campus life, University issues, and broader national and global concerns.","There is a limit to the messages you can post.","The lack of body language and other cues can lengthen the duration of the disagreement, and can also result in each person not being able to fully and accurately express themselves.","Boeing Only Aircraft Considered.","Post a list of things that contributes the the brilliance that is this thread.","Fallopian tubes, and ovaries.","BT, CBS, CNN, IBM, and NBC are initialisms that are not acronyms.","By the time Dr.","Are u mad at me?","Amusing demographics acronym from the dating industry.","HTML is the foundation and the frame of every website you visit.","ETOH intake history is often recorded as part of a patient history.","We may share certain information about our users with our advertising and analytics partners.","Be careful not to make that common mistake.","The method is not a trademarked or protected concept, although various proprietary systems and applications exist which make use of its principles.","Here is the list of US state names as a single string containing all the letters sorted into groups by count.","An overall review concerns relating to the organ systems, such as the respiratory, cardiovascular, and neurologic systems.","Amazing new insights into digital marketing: bit.","If you are messaging a friend, then obviously you can use any of the acronyms however you want.","Well Off Older Person.","Annualised Revenues Per User.","Contains Nonbinding Recommendations Acceptance of Clinical Data to Support Medical Device Applications and Submissions: Frequently Asked Questions.","This healthcare acronym has a certain onomatopoeic quality.","From the Italian for house, casa.","Throughout the race there are checkpoints for racers to recuperate, but how racers reach them is an individual struggle due to trackless portions of the race.","Financial Certification or Disclosure Statement.","Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard.","Societatis Historiae Socius, Fellow of the Historical Societys.","Potomac Electric Power Co.","TV or radio as a threat.","Do you wonder what the letters and numbers mean on your prescriptions or other items related to a disease, syndrome, or disorder?","Totally Unnecessary Breast Examination.","Cooperative for American Remittances to Everywhere, Inc.","FDA considers intended use, design, energy used or delivered, materials, chemical composition, manufacturing process, performance, safety, effectiveness, labeling, biocompatibility, standards, and other characteristics, as applicable.","Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden.","All of the acronyms above are pronounced as a word, not by their individual letters.","The listing of amino acids, the three letter and single letter code, and the explanation for the choice of the single letter is given below.","In creating this post, I quickly put together a short and sweet quiz on some of the terms that appear in the glossary here.","Typical IOs include air date and time, number of times for the ad to be shown, and costs.","She was, indeed, a pioneer.","Difficulty, Importance, and Frequency.","All Talk No Action.","The amino acid code that is used with the International Nucleotide Sequence Database is as follows.","Onassis Likes Your Money Paid In Cash.","The essential four stages for good quality management practice, customer service development, quality of service, and general personal development.","Checkpoints can be manned or unmanned.","Often used in getting to know one another.","Pockets Eroding Retirement Savings.","CR is the number of people who take an action, divided by the number of people who could have.","Motivation at its most basic.","Or it might help you avoid using WTF in the wrong context.","Simple Matter Of Cracking A Few Skulls.","Liverpool comedian Tommy Handley, in which TTFN was a catchphrase of Mrs Mopp the office char, played by Dorothy Summers.","Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.","Shorthand disclaimer notice, used as a rider at the bottom of invoices and other documents with potentially legal and contractual implications.","The other two answers from more than a year ago already mentioned this point; can you add more to the answer to make it stand out?","Newman thought wrily as he entered the building.","ESP, and some large companies have their own ESPs for sending bulk email.","Armed forces acronym code used typically on the backs of envelopes containing letters to sweethearts at home, as other examples NORWICH, SWALK, HOLLAND, EGYPT, CHIP, etc.","Margaret Oakley Dayhoff was a professor at Georgetown University Medical Center and a noted research biochemist at the National Biomedical Research Foundation where she pioneered the application of mathematics and computational methods to the field of biochemistry.","English alphabet or is short for kilo or karat.","Help us grow our database.","By their nature ASBOs are not easy to enforce and their effectiveness has been long debated.","What does GPI mean?","This is not to say there are no vital and wholly worthy applications of the science; there are of course.","Descriptive and useful acronym for all sorts of situations.","More sales department shorthand.","Best Universal Grit, Grime and Effluent Remover.","In addresses, signatures, lists of names, and leaderwork but not in tables nor in centerheads, Mr.","We use cookies to enhance your experience on our website.","Where DRM is open and giving, so knowledge and advancement are expansive.","What do you recommend?","Identify and analyze a situation; predict possibilities and risks arising; decide appropriate response or action; then execute or apply action.","Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics.","Defer Until The Christmas Holiday Is Ended.","This is a handy explanation, but is technically and historically incorrect.","What does BORA BAHIA MINHA PORRA mean?","They will seek to eliminate conflict in their international economic policies and will encourage economic collaboration between any or all of them.","Are social cues and manners being missed out on because of our digital culture?","Many organizations and corporate entities use acronyms as names.","Largely unfair but very clever reverse acronym.","What should I know about medical abbreviations?","Dual Income Little Dogs Only.","Telling someone your deep, dark, intimate secrets, but damn does it sound a little too serious?","Just Too Flipping Late.","If you are a manager or team leader and ever find yourself having to handle a BMW session, give the group encouragement, responsibility and suitable freedom to identify and pursue constructive response, change and improvement.","How do I generate a random int number?","Do I Look Like I Give A Damn?","Discover exercises good for lowering blood pressure, along with other lifestyle changes and medications to prevent high blood pressure.","The name of the product hosting the browser.","So, both K and M can be proper.","And if you are a CEO and you begin to see a few BOHICA posters appearing around the place, then perhaps start asking yourself some questions about your organisational culture and management style.","This was a great thread!","Know It When I See It.","For much of the race, participants everything they need on sleds while they race through mountains between the Yukon and Northwest Territories.","The three main motivational styles found in organizations and management.","The polite version is arguably better than the rude one.","Instagram game to the next level and boost your engagement.","So here we discuss a brief discussion about K and M in numbers.","All of them connote different things.","Focus On Reducing Costs Everywhere.","Thanks JV for correction.","Instructions for Accessing PRIV.","MECE very succinctly and elegantly signifies objectivity, transparency and quality of data, and so fits neatly with modern ideas of coaching and facilitation, as well as professional and clinical consulting.","Why Is the Keystone XL Pipeline Still So Disputed?","LLQ of the abdomen.","Cheggars, a nickname for Keith Chegwin, a British TV show presenter and personality.","Doctors and nurses shorthand acronym for a patient found dead at the scene.","You have surely heard about several festivals in Spain that no one should miss.","As a verb, it means wanting a romantic relationship.","For example, VISA is said to stand for VISA International Service Association.","They are determined to safeguard the freedom, common heritage and civilisation of their peoples, founded on the principles of democracy, individual liberty and the rule of law.","With Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, and alternate Washington DC.","This article has been made free for everyone, thanks to Medium Members.","According to a linguist friend of mine, it is in fact, not.","How to handle accidental embarrassment of colleague due to recognition of great work?","Modern demographics acronym, reflecting changing times.","To the Japanese, they are both still revered as industrial icons.","Let Us Feel The Hostesses And Not Say Anything.","Change to an Existing Device If your device is comprised of finished devices that are assembled into a convenience kit, we recommend that you identify your device as a convenience kit and list all the devices included inthe kit.","Greeks and the Romans, and there is often conflict.","This one is often seen on Reddit.","It is easy to see why the SONAR version was preferred.","Problem In Chair Not In Computer.","Doctors frequently will rule out various possible diagnoses when figuring out the correct diagnosis.","Barring a straightforward query, here are a few other ways you can feel more confident in decoding your text messages.","Each successive generation becomes quicker and more efficient at sending and receiving information, and this also extends to entertainment and leisure activities.","Keen to increase your Instagram engagement?","Belief, Optimism, Courage, Conviction, Action.","Fat Little Ugly Fellow.","The AEOBE acronym is on the left breast of the soldier aiming the catapult.","Symbols, when they appear in copy, may be used for acts of Congress.","News, advice and insights for the most interesting man in the room.","Me and you girl.","US Army, US Navy, US Department of State.","Jump And Pump All Night.","Originated as a computer metaphor but deserves a much wider exposure.","Proffman has offered runners sideline hip realignments in the past.","Scientific Wild Arsed Guess.","The speaker company is named after its founder, James Bullough Lansing.","Sometimes extended to BUMFFPICHHL and BUMFFPICHHLC to include Landing light and Clearance.","Again not true of course, like the rest of this silliness.","Comcast is the largest ISP in the United States.","Diamond should have known them.","Societatis Antiquariorum Socius, Fellow of the Society of Antiquariessc.","Jones, Junior, not Jones, Jr.","Malware trends are constantly evolving, but older techniques are still often used in cyber attacks today.","ARPU basically represents the average sales or billing value that the corporation is able to extract from each customer in a year.","SO uses the same basic logic in various places.","All Day I Dream About Shoes.","Fascinatingly, the meaning is almost entirely conveyed phonetically in the abbreviation, such is the way many people, speaking lazily or fast, would pronounce the phrase, ie.","Ask For The Order.","Please try again later.","Situation, Problem, Implication, Need.","It is followed by a period unless otherwise indicated.","It is neither an initialism abbreviation nor an acronym.","Ralph Johnston for suggesting this acronym.","See also SUMO and BUFFS.","PHP Switch statement for US States.","To deal a severe blow, to vanquish, to affect someone severely.","But Unfortunately Not Dead Yet.","Headaches can be divided into two categories: primary headaches and secondary headaches.","In its modern sense the abbreviation is a fitting metaphor for objectivity and respecting others, reminding us that other people are highly likely to have a different position or feeling than our own.","Loved the new music video from Nicki Minaj!","Vanderbilt University is committed to principles of equal opportunity and affirmative action.","One of my favorites is a report by the FBI that detailed out a huge list of social media acronyms.","PERT is potentially helpful for big complex projects which have crucial deadlines, within which budgets may be more flexible than usual, and where there is a major need to exploit opportunities to shorten timescales by improving the integration of interdependent activities.","You will probably have used a captcha without realising that it has this strange name, or that it has a name at all.","Memorise Computer Industry Acronyms.","Note: Does not format addresses, only states.","If you know an earlier use please tell me.","IP is a widely used abbreviation referring to any work of original creation.","Flanders University; School of Nursing and Midwifery.","Huge Unnecessary Massive Mobile, Emmissions Ridiculous.","Country links opens the country profile.","Below is an explanation of the column headings and abbreviations used in the listings.","LBP is one of most common medical complaints.","Abbreviated Coded Rendition Of Name Yielding Meaning.","This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks.","Europe in which occupation forces of any of the Parties were stationed on the date when the Treaty entered into force or the Mediterranean Sea or the North Atlantic area north of the Tropic of Cancer.","This code is for Internal Salesforce use only, and subject to change without notice.","In other words, broken.","Gotta see this video.","Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus.","STEM factors for example feature in US immigration criteria.","What is the Abbreviation for Thousand?","There was no advertising, no flashy branding or packaging; it just grew.","Test your knowledge to see which acronyms you know and which you might learn!","The problem comes when you are writing a formal or an academic piece.","Public Display of Affection.","The implications of Digital Rights Management extend ultimately to the way that knowledge and created works of all sorts are spread and made available around the world, the process of which of course contributes to the development of human civilisation.","Best Financial Modeling Course?","Balling is parading it around the office like a Harvard doctorate.","Nightclub and dating vernacular, and not gender specific.","When in doubt, ask for clarification.","WSO depends on everyone being able to pitch in when they know something.","WYGIWYD also emphasises the importance of communicating fully and properly with people whom you expect to produce results of any sort: internal and external staff and suppliers, designers, programmers, writers, etc.","Most often used with the simple ROFL, this abbreviation comes as a response to something really funny, to a greater degree than a LOL.","Dead Right There And Going To Stay That Way.","Cryptipedia is a FANDOM Games Community.","Add a comment if you think there is another way to shorthand or if we missed something!","Acronym name for the early computer programming language.","For the youngest of audiences, or unruly adult ones.","BS is a very succinct expletive, usually referring to misleading language or nonsense, or frustrating bureaucracy, etc.","ARPU is a favourite and fundamental financial measure used by the big consumer services corporations, especially the massive global corporations in the broadcast, telephony and internet sectors.","She Who Must Be Obeyed.","Thanks to the person who sent me this.","This site uses Akismet to reduce spam.","Thanks to L Lawrie and many others for pointing out this omission.","The USPS recommends the address be written in block capital letters for better processing by their OCR machinery.","The Powers That Be.","At a superficial level we see examples of BIRGing everywhere, fundamentally yet very subtly, in the wearing of strongly branded clothing and apparel.","Silly People Expect Computers To Replace Useless Managers.","Visit each School for information on admissions and financial aid.","As in taking a medicine each bedtime.","Employers transferring out and transferring in staff should ensure they understand these laws, especially before concluding negotiations about the sale, purchase or transfer of business interests.","We discovered this during an integrity check a few years ago and it resulted in a whole bunch of work.","Here, K indicates reluctant acknowledgement and acceptance of an order.","Comments will be approved before showing up.","Bletchley Park in the Second World War, and subsequently went on to pioneer the development of early computers and artificial intelligence.","Sister acronym to JFDI.","Running A Business And Doing A Degree.","As in taking a medicine daily.","Prioritise Activities by Yield.","Troy and Abed are total BFFs!","Do you already have an account?","This acronym refers to a weekly trend where users mention or post photos about a man whom they like or admire.","Equipment Superior to Operator.","Fecked In The Head.","See entry in main listing.","Whether you want to seem cool or you just want to know what all those acronyms mean when messaging or tweeting, check out our texting abbreviations below.","In company and other formal names, if it is not necessary to preserve the full legal title, such forms as Bro.","Widely used acronym used by party hosts and operators of unlicensed restaurants, instructing or requesting guests to bring drink, rather than expect it to be provided or available for purchase at the venue.","Myspace, Facebook and Bebo put together.","Whitehouse staff according to Richard Clarke, in preference to the more obvious and widely referenced FLOTUS.","Tired All The Time.","Domini, in the year of our Lorda.","Used especially by technical people in the entertainment industry and deserves usage and recognition on a global scale.","Dimensions are relative to each other or to time, or to both, or to something entirely different.","When you next hear reference to a BDU error, ask for an explanation.","This reads the rel attribute of the button to determine which div id to toggle.","As in taking a medicine twice daily.","Acronym for identifying vehicles involved in incidents, used by UK forces and services staff.","Excellent variation on the ubiquitous WYSIWYG.","Total Quality Management System.","POV angles are common in video gaming too, where the player sees the action as if experiencing it.","Signed up for bungee jumping!","This phrase is often used to distinguish between interactions and events that happen online versus the real world.","We do not need to be wealthy or in high office to perform ARKs.","Feet that point outwards.","You signed out in another tab or window.","MBA in business administration does sound a little like using a PIN number at an ATM machine to get money to repair your broken LCD display so you can read about RAS syndrome on Wikipedia over a cup of chai tea.","Corporate Banking Career Paths?","We were kiboshed as soon as we set off.","There are other applications however, for example, to emphasise the need for technicians and bureaucrats to use plain English in writing technical manuals and instructions for users.","If you have more colour tips, let us know in the comments below!","Email abbreviation when replying to requests.","The term has also been spotted in the education sector.","Davies, A Wilkinson, G Sargent, T Clarke, L Martin, Glenn Hooper, D Wilson, G Cartledge, B Poulter, E Stenning, L Van Helden, P Messervy, S Fraser, T Meyer, M Alldrick, R Jones, P Short, and J Kelmar for correct QANTAS meaning.","Dayhoff attempted to make the code as easy to remember as possible.","Advertisers tend to favour GB for gigabytes, while editors most often use Gb in copy with however a lack of consistency even within the same publication.","To older people this faster lifstyle seems like laziness or carelessness, but in fact it is more a reflection of the progressive sharpening of human brainpower.","Needs a Good Shag.","Thanks MK for raising RSVP, and thanks C Smith for spelling and diacritical corrections.","Dual Income, Two CHildren, Expanding Debts.","If it is a two letter string it checks to ensure that it is a state abbreviation, then returns the uppercase form of that, or null if not found in the array.","BMX bikes, which tended to withstand tough treatment, and encouraged a generation of youngsters to play outdoors perhaps more than would otherwise have been the case.","Commonly and covertly used in Los Angeles, and no doubt elsewhere.","No doubt someone will tell me if they know.","Opinions expressed are my own.","After all, there is just a handful of things we understand about it anyway.","To reject a persons application or request.","You know who you are.","More typically shown in plural as KEVs, referring to the Key Ethical Values of an organization or proposition.","Many older acronyms provide fascinating examples of the development of language and changing cultural attitudes.","Paramedic term for the condition of a patient when all hope is gone, ie.","Abbreviations are often used to save time and space.","The FOB expression originates from the meaning that the buyer is free of liability up to the point that the goods are loaded on board the ship.","Penguin Random House LLC.","Term given to a person or group having the audacity to complain about a nuclear waste recycling plant or high security prison being built close to their homes.","Keep Your Hands And Feet To Yourselves.","Contains Nonbinding Recommendations concise summary for any performance testing in the submission.","Medical Terminology for Cancer.","Slightly toned down interpretation.","Estonia E T K N R L P Finland Ma Ti Ke To Pe La Su France Lu Ma Sa Di Germany Mo Di Mi Do Fr Sa So Greece \u0394\u03b5\u03c5.","AVPU scale this logically signifies a deepening affect on the brain.","Click the link to confirm your subscription and begin receiving our newsletters.","You have power, status, education, quality life so on and so forth.","Twitter has added native retweets into their app, so whenever you spy an RT in your timeline now, that user has manually added the RT.","Did you buy that rather fetching hotel bathrobe or do you twoc it?","Million is annotated as MM.","User interface is the aspects of a website or product with which the user interacts with directly.","In fact we become enriched by giving.","TIME may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website.","There are also various alternative end words which are usually rude.","Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance.","No Known Drug Allergies.","Are They legally Obligated?","Star Wars movies, this abbreviation is used when someone is sending words of encouragement or motivation to another user.","The power of words and language is fascinating and amazing.","The buyers of the insurance were far more motivated by the implied reduction of exposure to risk, than to the seemingly more obvious appeal of higher compensation level.","In general, an API outlines the specifics of software applications, telling components how they should act on an interface.","The origin is apparently from a company called Hartl Crushtek, founded in Austria, which used to manufacture rock crushing machines, typically used in quarries.","First Great Western imposter reflects how our essential services have been exploited for profit and political expediency, a situation which persists.","For further descriptions and contributors see the entries as they appear above in the fuller listing.","Pressured And Not In Control.","HMB on my cell.","Unidentified Three Letter Acronym.","The Marketing Guild, who specialise in practical, innovative, and effective sales and marketing.","Use in conjuntion with TAPES.","My gift to you!","You can see the URL for any web page by looking in the address bar at the top of your browser window.","Loads Of Money But A Real Dickhead.","Whatever, acronyms and abbreviations add colour and texture to the written and spoken word, and to life in general.","Error Between Chair and Desk.","Minimum Of Fuss, Maximum Of Flavour.","When Latin abbreviations are used, follow this list.","As in take two tablets after meals.","Lack Of Flipping Talent.","Demographics acronym of sorts.","May, June, and July are always spelled out.","Help website, despite its limited functionality.","American term in World War II.","Does the device use software?","We are all racing towards death.","Use the full Chrome version when available.","That Looks About Right.","This index includes acronyms and abbreviations commonly used on this website.","Rhine are ultimately derived.","This free acronyms and abbreviations finder is a dictionary of useful acronyms and abbreviations for training, learning, teaching, etc.","Later below in this item you will see other alternatives.","Always About to Break.","An acronym for the modern age.","Creates a tuple of fundamental states of matter sorted alphabetically.","This is the secret of productivity, sustainable success, and effectiveness in all fields, not just cooking, and is one of the most widely neglected simple rules of achieving anything.","Found On Rubbish Dump.","For example MW is a megawatt.","Just In Time management, and the concept is typically most useful when viewed as a benefit or flexibility arising from strategic improvement within a business operation, than a cause of improvement itself, which it is not.","Match metric measurement words to their abbreviations.","Mathematical Association of America.","Nurses and doctors acronym for covert patients notes.","The University of Chicago.","Committee member Labour MP John Mann asked Bob Diamond if he could state the three founding principles of Barclays Bank.","CDC is not responsible for the content of pages found at these sites.","The firing squads typically were made up from their own reluctant comrades.","OK, brighter bulbs, please step forward.","Dignity and Respect At Work.","TOTBoxing is thinking outside the box.","North, South, East, and West are spelled out at all times.","Money is the most important element in the world today.","In addresses, a single period is used with the abbreviations NW.","Bang Another Nuisance Job Out.","Strip incorrect OS versions.","Commonly used by teachers when encouraging students to be more creative in answering questions.","My BAE and I are staying in tonight.","We also recommend that you provide a list of all tissuecontacting components and their respective materials.","Industry Analysis are added, and other variations.","For example, a patient may be permitted to move out of bed freely and orders would, therefore, be for activities to be ad lib.","Survey, Question, Read, Recall, Review.","Maybe herein lies the confusion.","Images are still loading.","Includes Canadian provinces, since I needed those.","Nothing to do with Eastern Bloc broadcasting, these are the essentials for a good meeting, and what must appear on the agenda.","One word titles are not abbreviated.","Alert, Voice, Pain, Unresponsive.","If you know the facts of this matter please tell me.","See also PEBCAK, BDU, PICNIC, UBAD.","Keep It Simple Stupid.","Sports Management Degree Hub.","Of course the usage is not restricted to motorbiking.","Should really be YUMP, which in some ways resonates more amusingly than YUPPIE, but would it have caught on?","To keep informed about.","With the wheel, and all its descendants, we found ways to speed up the pace, but the goal was the same.","Browse all of our undergraduate concentrations, graduate degrees, and professional certificates.","Important reminder of the aim, just in case the marketing effort threatens to disappear up its own rear end.","Holds Every Size Tit In Australia.","Greek or Roman; it is just the first letter of the word billion; so much for consistency.","Google Analytics is the tool created by Google to help you track your website traffic.","USAir was formed by the merger of Allegheny, Lake Central, and Mohawk Airlines.","Be Undressed and Ready My Angel.","Larissa left a popsicle and it melted.","Take Your Company Over.","Salem, not Portland, is the capital of Oregon.","For the first half of the race, checkpoint tardiness can be tolerated, but after that it is strictly enforced.","What do they mean?","Yahoo when it leapt out of the dictionary at them.","What A Good Idea If.","According to the strictest definition of an acronym, only abbreviations that are pronounced as words qualify.","OH: The show is standing room only tonight.","Polite version of the ruder sister acronym of OSINTOT.","What does marathi mean?","Solve your problems more easily with the app!","Persistence feature overrides this setting!","The one learning a language!","This copywriting formula helps devise a list of events that a reader can take toward converting.","FDA and industry resources and facilitate timely review.","This website sets no cookies from us or anyone else.","Letters which occur only once are sorted by ASCII value.","Not Our Class Dear.","Woman just said my outfit was on fleek.","There are some intense requirements for participants.","Just A Gauge Under Another Repair.","It takes place on different courses each year, but always in the remote wilderness of Chilean Patagonia in February.","Army, Marines, and Air Force have two positions at the same pay grade.","Appalling obviously, and a bit scary too.","Wait a minute, you say.","The CPU architecture the OS is built for.","Quality Assurance Standard acronym, ideal for giving humourous emphasis to sorts of issues relating to quality management and customer service.","So, in other words, killing it, only six characters shorter, thus easier on the Twitter.","Bend Over, Here It Comes Again.","How can we make this page better for you?","What does this mean?","The eleventh in a sequence or group.","Service Education and Training.","From primordial ooze surging to crawl out of the mud to sperm racing each other to fertilize eggs, all of life can be seen as a race.","Unsurpisingly POV filming happens a lot in pornography and has become a genre of its own in that industry.","Embed this gist in your website.","Roman here and we asked him to interpret our use of roman numerals, we would find that technically MM means two Thousand and MMM means three thousand, so there are flaws in this tradition.","Your communications and communications processes in selling, advertising or any other efforts designed to motivate others to action must follow this sequence to succeed.","Useful for Drupal address module.","FOMO comes into play quite often with social media where some people are compelled to stay connected so they never miss a big moment.","MS, for example to highlight where a person finds it difficult to accept responsibility for their own actions, or more usually, inactivity.","SMS technology and its describing terminology.","Also referred to as WOOFs; A variant of WOOP below.","BENDWIMP is also confirmed by Robert Buttrick, who emailed me to confirm it featured on a Robbins seminar handout.","Healthcare coded patient notes acronym.","Interestingly, genius minds of any generation have very low spans of attention: a sharp mind grasps a concept extremely quickly, becomes bored very quickly, and naturally seeks alternative stimulus if the present issue starts to drag.","Solution In Need Of A Problem.","Perhaps a loaded meaning?","Thousands is an interesting case because the Roman numeral system used M as their abbreviation.","Is its meaning as clear as possible?","Music Monday was originally used to share the music you were listening to that day.","Today, the most common use of acronyms and initialisms is for the names of corporations and for long, complex concepts.","Modern point of sale systems allow payment by electronic credit or debit method via connection to a central banking agency.","We will consider if such an alternative method could be assessed for equivalency to an animal test method.","HTML is the coding language used to build webpages and any other information viewable on the web.","An essential electrolyte frequently monitored regularly in intensive care.","TOIL specifically refers to the additional time off work accrued in this way.","The Council shall be so organised as to be able to meet promptly at any time.","Virtual Assistant Say About the Future of AI?","This interpretation is obviously the polite version.","Stool can also have texture changes such as greasy or floating stools.","Better On A Camel.","Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment.","The Student Should Be Able To.","By listening actively you also take the first step towards diffusing customer upset or anger.","Quick and Easy Guide to Texting Abbreviations in Spanish!","BIRGing is a popular and light term, yet has serious influences and connections.","What does Here I go mean?","Fobian, G Tolentino, S Harvey, P Bruton, C Buckneberg, B Speck, Crystal, M Alexander, J Heeley, M Flatla, P Eastham, L van den Berg, J Kelmar, J Fobian again thanks, and special acknowledgement to E Harvey for the SAAB invention.","Skills, Strategy, Structure, Style, Systems, Staff, Shared values.","Avoid interpretations that include both Achievable and Realistic because the words effectly mean the same so is a waste of a word.","After he finished law school, he decided the courier business was the real racket for him, so he recruited his pals Adrian Dalsey and Robert Lynn to help him with the runs.","The key as previously posted is to be consistent and provide a footnote as to the base unit.","So much for empowerment.","Normal Even For Norfolk.","Therefore, as a general rule, capitals should not be used unless there is a good reason to do so, eg, to show the beginning of a sentence.","The Term Dates are the earliest and latest class meeting dates for the section.","WYGIWYD is also a great reminder that people are more likely to perform to their fullest potential when they are given fair reward and recognition.","In nerdsville there is little consensus as to how multiples of bytes should be abbreviated.","Nevertheless, this famous acronym has applications just about everywhere, and is an excellent reminder of the importance of visualising outcomes in order to achieve results.","Match time words to their abbreviations.","Lights Are Not On.","Identify, Predict, Decide, Execute.","This was especially true when texting had to be done by tapping out each letter individually using the number pad; abbreviations were to be expected.","No one seems to know why SATs are so called in the UK.","Good luck in your interview!","Unfortunately Still Allegheny In Reality.","For the treatment of certain leg and foot injuries.","Proffman, a marathoner and chiropractor who supports runners once said.","Fart In A Trance.","Absurdly Contrived Representations Of Names Yielding Mass Stupefication.","BODMAS instructs us to work it out in the sequence below.","CSS adds the color and layout to the page.","The family of the OS.","Generally Accepted Auditing Standards.","Teaching English as a Foreign Language.","AIDA is a fundamentally powerful and useful communications model.","The former is the exact technical origin according to the OED.","Thank you to the several million people who have pointed out this omission.","Elihu Root; the Honorable Elihu Root; the Honorable Mr.","HCM from the traditional HRM in practice, although there is nothing to prevent well run Human Resources activities enabling and generating just the same reporting needs and outputs.","They contain boxes where participants can punch in and and record their time.","Same Stuff Different Day.","Drunk, with injuries of unknown origin.","Dayhoff got to lysine, there were not too many letters left, so she used the letter K, explaining that K is at least near L in the alphabet.","Army infantry acronym for urban warfare.","Bay and other similar online shopping websites, which enable millions of private consumers to sell to each other.","From the educational and social care sectors.","Self Adjusting Balls Up.","Asp is smaller than Glu, while Asn is smaller than Gln.","Must Be Really Old.","Send me a txt when you get there!","World War Two vintage, as examples of acronyms that were created.","Persistent Painstaking Proper Prior Planning and Purposeful Patient Preparation Potentially Promotes and Predicates Perfect, Pristine, Positive and Precise Performance Preventing, Primarily, Piss Poor Perfunctory Production Processes and Perenially Plummeting Profits.","BC, when he appended the letters to his geometric theorems.","Also, apparently, the word moodle is now a verb too, referring to the process of improvisation and discovery leading to enjoyable personal development and learning.","Acronyms are usually used in everyday language and they tend to get picked up quite quickly, and in many ways are used more often than the multiple words that the acronym stands for.","Abbreviations and initials of a personal name with points are set without spaces.","Double Income No Kids Yet.","One of the most crucial and often overlooked elements of planning and leadership is to anticipate circumstances.","References to statutes in parentheses, footnotes, sidenotes, tables, leaderwork, and congressional work are abbreviated.","This could involve interactions with your product, your website, your customer support, or your social media.","Situation analysis, Objectives, Strategy, Tactics, Action, Control.","Dayhoff dedicated her career to applying the evolving computational technologies to support advances in biology and medicine, most notably the creation of protein and nucleic acid databases and tools to interrogate the databases.","The word may already exist or it can be a new word.","Dedication, Responsibility, Education, Attitude, Motivation.","True I assure you.","When training anything to anybody never teach the whole thing all at once.","This also saves space and takes less time.","Acronym version of an old English expression.","GWR people tend to be process and detail oriented.","Clear, Loud, As an order, with Pauses.","Rules and Regs minus Relationships equals Resentment and Rebellion.","The Parties to this Treaty reaffirm their faith in the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations and their desire to live in peace with all peoples and all governments.","Making statements based on opinion; back them up with references or personal experience.","Defining Advertising Goals for Measured Advertising Results.","Transaction, Relationship, Information, Partnership.","For example, Cadbury prints all of their chocolate packaging and promotional material with a purple spot colour.","Simple Matter Of Playing With A Few Figures.","What is Leveraged Finance?","See also PERRLA below.","Amusing ironic enhancement of TLA.","The new focus of so many modern advertising campaigns.","How To Make Love.","Wild Assed Guess, Not Easily Refuted.","Barfed Up Icky Carmel Korn.","Not actually an automotive maker, but a popular automotive acronym.","Academic degrees standing alone may be abbreviated.","The Course Reference Number which is used to enter courses into the computer.","OOOO version, unless you know better.","Conversion ratios or percentages between CPT, CPI and CPC are what count.","To subscribe to this RSS feed, copy and paste this URL into your RSS reader.","We also recommend that your conclusions discuss any comparison testing with the predicate device in terms of substantial equivalence.","For a short boss with Napoleonic syndrome.","Tell me, Explain to me, Describe to me.","Would you like to go ahead.","The BENDWIMP acronym is apparently used by Tony Robbins, who seems also to be the originator.","Acronym used by Whitehouse staff.","We have updated our writing tools.","Full of life and energy.","Interestingly, it may never come close, try as we might.","Try to avoid abbreviations if possible and write the full word.","Mustard on my tie, again.","Mathematical term, and applicable more generally, to justify the use of an isolated case in proving an issue, when the need for wider evidence is not required or is irrelevant and would be a waste of time.","Sometimes, a bit more effort put into a text can make all the difference.","Can ask simple questions and can understand simple answers.","The acronym FAST also cleverly emphasizes the need for urgency in checking the signs and reacting.","Clinical Bench Performance Testing Information in Premarket Submissions.","Is that what you want?","Pull It Outa The Air.","Unable to process the form.","Hurt died in January, but his words serve as a reminder that the ultimate race is against complacency, inertia and entropy.","It only takes a minute to sign up.","DINKIES version of the base DINK expression.","The use of the word should in Agency guidance means that something is suggested or recommended, but not required.","Want to thank TFD for its existence?","An acronym is a pronounceable word that is formed using the first letters of multiple words.","This website works best with modern browsers such as the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge.","Army package power reactorapprox.","Hematocrit in the blood is the proportion of the blood that consists of red blood cells, by volume.","Does a Javelin of Lightning allow a cleric to use Thunderous Strike?","Not sure how to calculate a count of people from metric to otherwise.","TV technicians today are more familiar with the second ironic meaning of this acronym, perhaps reflecting an increasing tendency of mind changing among modern directors.","Thanks for signing up.","While some linguists claim that the use of texting acronyms degrades the clarity of the language, others support that this is just one more language change that needs to be embraced.","Correct build number for numeric comparison.","Publication locations are included if journals of the same name are published in more than one city.","The expression is sometimes combined with BUNDY, ie.","First Lady OF The United States.","Empire Airlines and Pacific Southwest Airlines, and later America West Airlines.","RLQ of the abdomen.","COmmon Business Orientated Language.","All Well On Leaving.","Big Boobs, See Soon.","To produce, supply or sell.","After all, acronyms existed thousands of years before smartphones were invented.","One Recent Child, Heavily In Debt.","First In First Out.","Partner acronym and ideal next stage to NIMBY.","It originated in the US and is now used widely in the English speaking world, to the extent that the BS expression is now very rarely considered truly offensive.","Press Lots Of Keys To Abort.","What does diabetes have to do with obesity and diet?","Not recommended for use in any circumstances whatsoever.","Subscribe to our Newsletter!","The acronym seems to have originated in the US military.","We see it in people who like to drive very aspirational car brands, and in the aims and effects of aspirational and lifestyle branding more broadly.","Can you DM me your email address?","Thanks to the following who have contributed additional abbreviations to this list; Jane Evans, Kevin Fishwick, Anna Mitchell, Moira Stewart and the staff of the former UKCCSG Data Centre.","Mutually Exclusive, Comprehensively Exhaustive.","More interesting than the straight TLA.","Our Rapid Response Laboratory at St.","Diseases and medications can also cause low blood pressure.","Temperature is recorded as part of the physical examination.","Cover Letter Purposeover letters have been prepared in a wide range of formats and have varied in terms of the information they contain.","The aim of kanban is actually zero inventory.","FYI, my Macbook Air smells like fresh popcorn!","Can we come around to watch TV at yours tonight, our is knackered.","Council of Economic Adviserscf.","Time Off In Lieu.","In years to come how many people will know that LP stood originally for Long Player?","Physical Exam: Why Does Your Doctor Do That?","Most often times they do, but you have to be careful.","Get unlimited access to TIME.","If in doubt about the meaning behind a text, consider examining the content itself.","LASER and RADAR have bent the acronym rules.","PC acronyms and abbreviations are an increasing presence in our language.","Everyone can be GOAT at what they do and who they are.","Submissions for Devices Labeled as Sterile.","Often used as a hashtag, TBT is when users share a photo from their past, often baby photos or, in the case of companies, photos from their early years.","Difficulty, Importance, and Frequency, in that sequence.","Doctors and nurses should use with extreme care, if at all, as it has become commonly known in recent years and relatives tend to get a little miffed.","Another recurring Twitter topic.","Extension of the SWAG and WAG acronyms.","For example, the amount of fluid removed from the body is recorded in ccs.","It might seem rude if you use too many abbreviations in an email you write to your recruiter.","Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.","English abbreviations composed of exactly three letters.","Very probably the most common acronym in use today.","If texting is the norm, we should embrace it, and we certainly seem to have done so.","Too Bloody Clever by Half.","Carroll asked if he could use them in the motivational talks he gave at schools and camps.","Find the meanings for acronyms and abbreviations used at UCSD.","This is an incomplete list of the most common abbreviations and shortenings often found in cryptics.","Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, Evaluation.","Grofers implemented to prevent such mishaps!","And other variations using these words.","For more detail relating to IP issues attached to important or potentially significant personal or organisational liabilities, licensing, etc.","Specifically POMO reminds us of the importance of optimal conditions in any situation where a person or group wants to take action.","Used in advertising and marketing environments, an insertion order is a written contract between an advertiser and an ad agency or media rep, often used for print or broadcast ads.","What is a Health and Wellness Management Degree?","Documents, Records, Interviews, Visuals, Evaluation, Review.","Thanks for Subscribing to our Blog!","Even here there is some ambiguity.","Know What I Want When I See It.","Looking forward to the conference.","Counselling, Advice, Referral, Assessment and Throughcare.","New Jersey because of the space.","Frequent texting with friends and family tends to reveal their common patterns.","The MTBCM factor does not allow of course for those projects which need to be started before a precise specification can be agreed, which is another matter altogether.","Nurses and doctors acronym used on patient notes.","Taking Our Yen Out Thanks America.","Old Person Expecting Full Useful Life.","Definitions of the common abbreviations and acronyms used in chemistry and chemical engineering.","In its day the expression was of course gender specific but now in this age of gender equality is not necessarily so.","These letters are combined to create a shortened down word for people to say rather than repeating themselves with the full name or multiple words over and over again.","What is this acronym?","Longitudinal And Directional Distance Extremity Reacher.","Amusing and truthful acronymic rule for life, which in abbreviated form trips off the tongue very pleasingly.","First In Stays There.","English word so closely related to their trade.","Doctors and other health care professionals commonly use a list of abbreviations, acronyms, and other medical terminology as a reference to rapidly search and accurately record information about, and give instructions to their patients.","From the game of Rugby, whereby a ball kicked into touch is out of play.","Examples include Unicef, Mercosur, Frelimo, but there are hundreds of these in common use.","Acronyms and initialisms have been around for a very long time: they have appeared before the Christian era.","Remember A Flipping Thing.","Pissed And Fell Over.","SPOC arrangement is often beneficial, subject of course to ensuring suitable contingency where the SPOC is a single person who might be unavailable when required in an emergency, or absent through sickness or on holiday.","You signed in with another tab or window.","One of the more creative acronyms.","Rather Be In Ambridge.","If you are interested in what the treaty is and what NATO is technically for, here it is below.","CPC is the total cost of each converted sale.","What Does K Mean?","Interested in learning more about one of our nursing programs?","You can add your own CSS here.","But if anything, just remember this: one K is bad, two Ks are good and above all else, never, ever use three Ks.","Ear To Ear Grin.","Superb nurses abbreviation shorthand for the worst patients.","Process for changing anything.","Runners will run among rare, threatened cacti, big horn sheep and the endangered California Condor.","Frequently Outwitted By Inanimate Objects.","Spanish slang is often used to replace the ch sound.","The headings by which to assess performance of anything, particularly a new initiative.","Village Idiot On Tour.","Simple Matter Of Programming.","Do you need help with Spanish texting abbreviations?","What a great expression.","The Regents of the University of California.","Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search.","Stay Off Stay Alive.","The essence of good writing is precision and clarity, and the use of abbreviations seems an ideal way to ensure these essentials.","This notice must stay intact for legal use.","Street or Avenue as part of a name is not abbreviated even in parentheses, footnotes, sidenotes, tables, lists, or leaderwork.","An example of K is the abbreviated form of the word kilogram.","Dayhoff assigned the letters A, G, L, P and T to the amino acids Alanine, Glycine, Leucine, Proline and Threonine, respectively, which occur more frequently in proteins than do the other amino acids having the same first letters.","Realisation, Investigation, Substitution, Embedding.","Central to this, during the exploring or research process necessary before embarking on actions aimed at moving others to take action, we must listen empathically and facilitatively to the people we want to reach and move.","For consumer customer profiling, Maslow Hierarchy of Needs examples, etc.","Hello, please can anybody tell me what does such marking mean?","There is no need to learn these names and abbreviations.","Navy, and the chief master sergeant of the Air Force are the spokespersons of the enlisted force at the highest levels of their services.","Not an acronym obviously but worthy of inclusion.","Programme Evaluation and Review Technique.","The BSA motorbike was not famed for its comfortable ride.","But how will it look on social media networks?","Noted authors to have covered the subject include Edwards Deming, Taiichi Ohno, and Yasuhiro Monden.","Emotional Reaction Impedes Control.","These are not normally preceded by the definite article.","How do I reestablish contact?","Checkpoints are played out on a course map, with guidance times for runners to find them, and cutoffs.","See also KASH below.","Priorities, Outcomes, Sequence, Timings, Attendees, Date, Time, Venue.","See if you can think of and write down a common abbreviation for each letter of the alphabet.","Take the Diabetes Quiz and learn the causes, signs, symptoms, and types of this growing epidemic.","The letter always follows the number.","What Does Thousand Mean?","It was very sad when my grandmother kicked the bucket the day after winning the top prize on the bingo.","This particularly applies to intellectual property of the digital age: music, film, news, and arguably more significantly: information, software, and technology.","Vital Information Resources Under Siege.","My Eyes Glazed Over.","How do you say this?","When the user scrolls down from the top of the document, show the button window.","Define as an anonymous module so platform can be aliased through path mapping.","RISE model please attribute it appropriately.","Advertising terms and crucial measures of advertising and selling performance.","Apparently favoured by the Royal Mail.","Long versions, including Save Our Ship and Save our Souls, came later.","Leave Until Christmas Is Done.","Work It Out For Your Flipping Self.","Below are terms that have been rolling off kids tongues, popping up in songs and memes, and generally floating around the Internet lately.","Healthcare mnemonic to aid memory of possible causes of unconsciousness.","Why does Disney omit the year in their copyright notices?","They are resolved to unite their efforts for collective defence and for the preservation of peace and security.","The tails of the capital Q form tears, while the circles are the eyes.","Pertaining to taxation and the avoidance thereof.","SEM refers to the way that companies and brands promote their website within search engines.","POMO in a controlled measurable way.","Not true of course.","What is the name of both these letters?","Kit Off And Legs Akimbo.","CMS we use for the Buffer blog.","Never Do It Again.","And finally always remember that there is the option to do nothing, which on occasions can be the best thing.","What does hit the wall mean?","Explain, Demonstrate, Imitate, Practice.","The most amazing announcement ever.","Use with care if you must use is at all, and whilst not necessarily recommended, there is a potential application for explaining the more technical aspects of customer profiling.","What can you do, except do what you can do as best you know how.","SPOOLAs, but has now largely faded from use with shifting tastes, although olive oil can be found in virtually every kitchen nowadays, and so is no more of a demographic indicator than stripped pine, which has become something of a rarity.","For example, to what extent can people and organisations who have already made vast fortunes from their intellectual property be a little more willing to share for free?","Whether this pun and the bigger one involving the acronym name are intentional we can only guess.","ITALY, HOLLAND, SWALK, BURMA and NORWICH, etc.","Pronounceable abbreviations that are made up of bits of words should be written as proper nouns, ie, with an initial capital letter.","Plant Cell, Tissue Organ Cult.","Greek kinein, meaning to move.","Sardonic term from the armed forces, but eminently transferable and just as effective in describing any daft instruction from the idiots above.","Retail term, being the physical point at which products are displayed on shelves or paid for at the checkout, as in the EPOS acronym.","Food and Agriculture Organizationf.","However, it may sometimes be interpreted as lacking enthusiasm.","US as a positive interpretation of the common derogatory reference to their noble profession.","The patient is receiving treatment for Lobular Carcinoma In Situ.","So which group do you think they are going to send into action first?","Many other abbreviations listed here are far more recent.","Sardonic and amusing acronym from the military and emergency services.","Become a Gold Supporter and see no ads.","Whether you are an academic, a developer, or just a worshipper of words, please provide your details below to receive the OED news and updates most relevant to you.","Provide details and share your research!","Follow Friday is a recurring topic on Twitter.","Association for Retarded Citizens, Inc.","Good, Just Ask Me.","Usually used sarcastically or contemptuously.","Abbreviations, acronyms, and medical terminology are used for many conditions, and for instructions on medication prescribed by your doctor.","Council Housed And Violent.","Its short form was used for the metric system.","So, which should you use?","Face, Arms, Speech, Time.","Foul Up, Got Ambushed, Zipped In.","In the text of technical and legal publications, and in parentheses, brackets, footnotes, sidenotes, tables, leaderwork, and bibliographies, many words are frequently abbreviated.","See GLAM, and WOOF above.","RSVP is traditionally printed on invitations to weddings and parties, etc.","Your browsing activity is empty.","This is one of the most powerful forms of leadership.","Acronyms, whether true acronyms or not, and abbreviations, add colour, fun and interest to our language, and thereby they act as mnemonics, or memory devices.","Instantly share code, notes, and snippets.","Will you call me?","Description Is Not Analysis.","The IKIWISI principle is not a great help when working with specialists who require a decent brief.","Press in relation to our other products and services.","Contact the department offering the course for the exam date.","Territory includes Washington, Oregon, Montana, Idaho, Hawaii, Alaska, California, and Utah.","It is a proven process for delegating and managing a task or project, especially involving a large group of people in different locations, with complex resources and system support.","Another amusing demographics social category acronym.","Annika Iltis and Timothy Kane.","Sod This For A Game Of Soldiers.","Any such armed attack and all measures taken as a result thereof shall immediately be reported to the Security Council.","The BIRGing phenomenon is very simply shown in the wearing of football club shirts, especially when the football club concerned is winning.","Social networking connectivity is typically a big part of a VLE.","Spirit of a Runner.","Demographics acronym and dating term.","Has difficulty understanding even short answers in this language.","All his shouting is really annoying me.","German, Walter Bruch, at Telefunken.","This is not an exhaustive list and attempts only to include the more creative, interesting or amusing examples.","JIT is a lot trickier than it sounds.","Greying, Leisured, Affluent, Married.","This collection is also a study in language and communications.","Patient Service Centers in Central New York.","ITC helpdesk shorthand, but of course not necessarily restricted to IT applications.","This relates directly to human motivation in many ways.","In such case it should clear or well documented what unit means what.","Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria, Turkey.","LABTSEOR is rather less memorable.","For the Romans, the god of wine would be Bacchus, and for the Greeks it would be Dionysus.","From the consumer electrical equipment repair industry, although widely applicable elsewhere.","Patron Saint of thankless tasks.","Paul D Kennedy has written highly persuasive copy in both print and electronic media for local and international clients.","Here are some common abbreviations that you will come across in job advertisements and correspondence.","In email marketing, for instance, CTR describes the rate at which people clicked on a link in an email, taking into consideration the number of people who received the email.","To begin your search, go to the alphabetical index below and click on the first letter of the word you are searching for.","Genial Old Farts Enjoying Retirement.","While IPOs are most commonly small young companies raising capital to finance growth, IPOs can also be very big indeed, such as recently established technology corporations like Google and Facebook.","Younger viewers perhaps will not know the old BOAC airline, which officially stood for British Overseas Airways Corporation.","Acronym mnemonic for workplace culture, attitude, behaviour, values, etc.","Especially helpful in sales and marketing training.","All Fine On Leaving.","BBB phenomenon to withstand scrutiny there is typically a tendency among the persuaded to lack necessary confidence or courage or interest to challenge the assertions of the bullshitter.","Another Week Shot Up the Arse.","Huthwaite Inc of the US, or Huthwaite International of the UK.","Is the device a reprocessed single use device?","Supreme interpretation or response for the typical insulting or envious use of the term.","When a block of black overlaps another colour or an image.","Only the user who asked this question will see who disagreed with this answer.","It Notes gets its name from its roots as a company that mined stone to make grinding wheels.","No permission or approval is required, provided it is offered sensitively and the recipient is given the opportunity to decline the offer, although recipients generally accept, and then become empowered and motivated to perform their own ARKs for others.","Kosher: prepared according to kashrut.","In your case, I believe I would use code to check Google maps for each address, and see if they can return a record that identifies the state.","The key points also remind us to avoid waffle and unnecessary information when communicating vital and urgent instruction.","The ultimate simplification of the selling process.","Just because old school SMS is gone does not mean the abbreviations have died.","Here is a regular expression that also matches any US state abbreviation.","Guardian Reader Of Limited Intelligence, Ethnic Skirt.","Risk mitigation is a strategy to prepare for and lessen the effects of threats faced by a business.","In the names of informal companionships the word is spelled out.","Is Employee Time Tracking An Ethical Practice?","Made At Zoo by Demented Apes.","Copyright The Closure Library Authors.","Sometimes you need this list in a database table.","SID checks should for example be part of the development of instructions for flat pack furniture, computer systems, and increasingly complex household equipment like TVs.","Sexual intercourse whilst standing.","Profit Impact of Marketing Strategy.","If are studying modern HR practices and methods then again you will tend to find such ideas being presented under the HCM heading.","We met IRL a few years back.","Buyer payment is pending.","Mr Bruch, but know people who have and reported him to be a fine person as well as a dedicated engineer, and it is fitting he be credited.","Fi and a smart speaker make sense?","America, an area first explored by its earliest human settlers, the Navajo and Paiute Indian tribes.","So now they are being used the most on social media.","Candidates race to hold office, only to see their reigns melt away in subsequent races.","Great extension of LANO, LONI or as an alternative to PEARL.","For anyone who needs reminding of the realities of the business world.","It is also known as the Hierarchy of Effects.","This process is automatic.","An acronym is an abbreviation that forms a word.","Understanding is not necessarily the same as agreeing, which can be important where the issue needs investigating before finally resolving.","It was of course the random text that designers use instead of copy before the real stuff is written.","If you are bundling more than one device in your submission, we recommend that you identify all the devices you are bundling and discuss why you believe bundling is appropriate.","Popular on Instagram, OOTD often will appear as a hashtag.","Agents will also commonly see us communicate M as thousands when we quote surety rates or agent commissions.","The description, although concise, should be sufficient to provide an overall understanding of the device.","Is there a term for a theological principle that if a New Testament text is unclear about something, that point is not important for salvation?","Whoa, sounds like strep throat!","Listen, Advise, Solve, Thank.","It is best to respond when you are able to send a thoughtful response and only do so when time allows.","The word Kilo originated from the Greek language Khilioi.","Write the abbreviations for common dictionary terms, including noun, verb, adjective, Greek, etc.","See MEGO, PEARL and RHINO.","Often, this person is helpful in engaging with the community on social media, forums, and meetups.","Sahara desert in southern Morocco.","Unidentified Four Letter Acronym.","Please enable Cookies and reload the page.","Log in or sign up to reply here.","Does the device contain a biologic?","Spell out Senator, Representative, and commandant.","Digital Interface is a Shit FOr Brains.","What does what is K mea.","Run Away People Coming.","Schuster Digital Sales Inc.","It needs it, and you probably do too.","See FLK and other ODSAs.","EDIP is used in explaining teaching methods to trainee instructors at the UK Fire Service College.","Sarcastic term for a list of activities and times, etc.","By continuing to visit this website you agree to our use of cookies.","Is it M for Thousand and MM for Million, or K for thousand and M for Million?","Not A Chance Til After Christmas.","When necessary, or as needed medications.","This neat acronym cleverly conveys its meaning in the word since a VIBE adds sensory information to text.","What can you do?","Small and Medium Enterprises.","Here is a list of all the abbreviations you will need to successfully text in Spanish.","English languages can chime on this.","Do you love bugs covering your body?","Companies that focus on selling goods and services to other companies.","Have your data in database in default units and simply calculate value depending on the culture and add units to the end of it.","Rarely admitted but often thought.","The word lavatory is in itself, a euphemism for a place to wash.","It is maybe not wholly coincidental that MOOC finds itself very close in dictionary listings and glossaries to MOODLE below, which is a closely related and often integrated system within the MOOC concept.","Depending on who is doing the walking about and whether you are in the vicinity this could be either a good thing or a bad thing.","Secondary headaches are caused by disease.","Thinking Outside The Box.","See also UTLA and UFLA.","Rolling On The Floor Laughing And Peeing In My Pants.","In My Humble Opinion.","Where Do I Sign?","Match all the states but none of the countries.","It was called Spectrum because it offered a colour display.","Medical acronym and useful mnemonic for remembering the different possible diagnoses of unconsciousness.","Burnt Out But Opulent.","CRA Rating is in.","Fur Coat No Knickers.","Chick Hunting In North Africa.","Tenuously and amusingly constructed, and an obviously insulting term, allegedly used by certain members of the computer technical support community to describe an inept user.","Greek word for thousand.","Those rates are expressed per thousand and the MM denotes millions.","But all of these seem fine to me?","EBCAD error, albeit replicated across the most significant executive offices of the financial and regulatory world.","Could I have CAD?","The scrotum, the pouch that holds the testicles.","CBC measures the concentration of white blood cells, red blood cells, platelets in the blood, and aids in diagnosing conditions and disease such as malignancy, anemia, or blood clotting problems.","What is most important: making a ton of money, or making the most of what you can offer the world?","Sealed With A Loving Kiss.","WOOO can happen when any group is given the opportunity to discover and develop and achieve by themselves.","However, K originates from the Greek Kilo and is more commonly used today to minimize confusion.","USA and probably not any other nation either.","NASA or FEMA above.","Readily transfers to corporate training and evaluation, business report writing, strategic planning, etc.","Check for errors and try again.","Felicity received five thousand dollars as a graduation present from her grandparents.","Pediatric Dentistry Approved Abbreviations.","The abbreviation usually follows immediately, in parentheses, but it may be introduced in other ways.","Management By Wandering About And Listening.","Most Useless Police Probationer Ever Trained.","CPI is the cost of each inquiry received, ie total advertising cost divided by the number of inquiries received.","The Percentage of People who Use Social Media in the Bathroom.","Dash In A Real Rush, Hurry Or Else Accident.","Basically XTLA can mean any acronym of four or more letters.","It is better to have a friendship based on business, than a business based on friendship.","The psychology of BIRGing can be related to Darwinian evolutionary theory, and also to Freudian theory on ego and self image, etc.","Hardly At Running Temperature Long.","How to print number with commas as thousands separators?","As such GWR is a novel way to describe or present a personality or system which cannot be moved or changed without suitable preparation and patience.","Sadly local councils and planners were very slow to realise that BMX riding, and skateboarding too, are actually good things for young people to do.","SM Tools and Tips bit.","The MOFMOF maxim is however extremely transferable to work, management, business, and to life generally, since it essentially emphasises the concept of focusing your effort on what matters most.","We hope you found what you were looking for.","If the cookie value does not correspond to any value in the currency dropdown.","High hemoglobin count may be caused by dehydration, smoking, emphysema, tumors, or abuse of Epogen.","NSFW means that a link, photo, video, or text contains graphic or inappropriate content for the workplace.","This word derives from old English, wryhta, from Germanic, wyrhta, also meaning work.","Here is alphabetically indexed states array.","This only fires once the animation has completed.","You Only Live Once.","The persistent and intentional deception and teasing of someone for pleasure.","Get into a metal trash can and every time someone posts, you pop out and post the current time.","Civilisation advances proportionately to knowledge transfer and human collaboration.","Is the form chosen the most precise one?","Apparently this is complicated, as one would expect.","Culture and sensitivity, performed to detect infection.","IT systems relate to organisational operations and enterprise, and optimising perfromance as a result.","Goals, Reality, Options, Will.","Learn How to Text in Spanish With our Top Spanish Texting Abbreviations and Slang!","Rather than rudely ignore you, they attempt to respond as quickly as possible.","The sound of a cash till ringing, expressed to signify monetary profit.","Parties or any third State is in conflict with the provisions of this Treaty, and undertakes not to enter into any international engagement in conflict with this Treaty.","Yes, radar really is an acronym.","If it is anything longer it checks to see if it is a key in the array, and returns the abbreviation, or null if not found.","Here is a regular expression that matches any US state abbreviation.","For the process of change.","Pulse is recorded as part of the physical examination.","Our recommendations for clinical testing typically depend on many factors including device type, intended use, design, safety profile, and clinical experience.","It was suggested to me a while ago that this is the origin of the ladies fashionwear chain name.","We strive to bring you a higly reliable source for knowledge.","What does Simp mean?","TIL how tax credits work.","Listen, Empathise, Ask, Resolve.","At Old Republic Surety we seek to deliver you transparency and clarity in our communications.","What made it happen, despite its basically very clumsy and limited functionality, was millions of people who found it useful.","Safe Pair Of Hands.","This is your ISP.","The shortening of our words and sentences; the absence of context and social cues.","Returns the OS string.","All content on this website, including dictionary, thesaurus, literature, geography, and other reference data is for informational purposes only.","Are we missing a good shorthand here?","Very, very different things.","Below is a list of letter codes and a definition of each.","Mad As A Hatter.","We have compiled this list of the more common acronyms and abbreviations to help those who are not familiar with their meaning.","As in taking a medicine three times daily.","This list of has been compiled over a number of years and abbreviations have been collected from a wide range of sources including journal articles and conference presentations.","Allegedly seen occasionally on patients medical notes.","If a patient is given a DNR order, they are not resuscitated if they are near death and no code blue is called.","Margaret Oakley Dayhoff, the founder of the field of bioinformatics, died before the field was recognized as a distinct area for investigation.","If you need answers to your questions, email us.","Leaves Us Cold And Stranded.","If spotted you could need more acronyms.","Whether this acronym originated in the armed services is not clear.","This will avoid destroying confidence, and enable gradual progress to the point that the whole thing can be practiced.","When discussing numbers that do not easily round to a thousand, use a decimal point with one number after the decimal.","Use with great care, in fact best not use it at all.","This generally involves some good quality thinking and consultation, and probably some research too.","The credit for this goes to the Greeks.","Information on this website is provided by treatment advocates and offered as a guide only.","This happened because it was a lot easier to fit a few letters, not the whole name, on the side of a railroad car, on the ticker tape, or in the stock listing in a newspaper.","What do I mean by that?","The only people these days who can remotely afford to buy a few bricks of and a couple of fence panels towards their first house.","We cannot control how others treat us, but we can certainly control how we respond.","The term LED has become a general term for a light of various sorts which employs LED technology.","Heaps Of Little Dirty Engine Nuts.","The drugs kicked in just as I was talking to my boss.","Who do you pay for Internet?","But it means more than that.","Also used to kill conversations with people.","COPD is a pulmonary disorder caused by obstructions in the airways of the lungs leading to breathing problems.","Migraine headaches, tension headaches, and cluster headaches are considered primary headaches.","ISO was not originally an acronym.","Miraculously, the race has produced no fatalities.","WOOO may also happen by helpful positive design, such as the delegation of greater responsibility by a good leader to a maturing team.","See a picture of Blood Pressure and learn more about the health topic.","When will the daft buggers learn?","What A Load Of Crap.","The helix of continuous improvement.","Government Airway Ruined Under Dutch Administration.","Goals, Objectives, Strategies, Plans, Activities.","Once you have found that abbreviation, make sure to apply it consistently throughout the piece you are writing.","Standard Idiot Test obviously translates as SIT, but SID is a more fun.","Single Point of Contact.","Thanks P Smith for suggesting it.","CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP NOW!","Thank you for using The Free Dictionary!","This place is packed!","Signs and symptoms are headache, fever, and facial tenderness, pressure, or pain.","The criterion excludes counting the number itself.","You could also track clicks and conversions back to your website via social.","Huthwaite training organizations that he founded.","As found in legal margins.","Over time the name became abbreviated to simply CVS.","Sometimes the dollar sign is included, but it is not necessary.","If you also have this thing in your mind and you do not know about them then this post is for you.","FYI the USPS has moved its official list.","Usually of males, to masturbate.","Of all the work sheets I passed out, the ones in high school were the worst.","Applies to any situation where the oldest go first and the newest stay longest, but a perilous policy in terms of staff.","Often used synonymously, these two terms refer to the process of getting the most out of social media for your business or brand.","Facebook pages and through memes years ago.","Our social media shorthand is amazingly extensive.","Tastes Expensive, Pension Inadequate, Dammit.","In the UK piss off means go away or leave, as well as annoy.","Nurses abbreviation on patient notes.","What is the convention for abbreviating thousands, millions, and billions in monetary amounts?","What does TATAKAE mean?","High hematocrit levels may be due to chronic smoking, living at high altitudes, dehydration, or other conditions and diseases.","Cochran, published by American Veterinary Publications, Inc.","It was nice to see you this morning!","We also recommend that your conclusions describe any comparison testing with the predicate device in terms of substantial equivalence.","Found this page useful?","Those Having Insufficient Cerebral Kinesis.","Application of a new technique in a practice or pressure situation is required to turn the technique into a skill and then improve it.","How would you describe yourself and your interest in Oxford Languages?","BTAIM, I still prefer comments on blog posts.","Full convergence between computers and TV is fast approaching, and its effects will be wide and deep.","Abbreviations that use the first letter of each word in a phrase are sometimes referred to as initialisms.","Most people need an explanation as to what an abbreviation stands for.","Detect Chrome desktop mode.","It was his fourth time finishing the race.","Is it a Hartl.","AFAIK, there are no peanuts in a Milky Way bar.","CRA revenue code being applied.","Lazy Ignorant Fool Expecting Retirement.","Shut Up Move On.","Esperanto for Dummies from a flea market cassette tape than to memorize all these letters.","WOOO effect can unleash previously hidden and unknown amazing capabilities in people and teams, and be so liberatingly empowering as to move mountains.","Dem Old Dudes Go Everywhere.","Examples of other reasons include endometiral biopsy and to remove tissue after a misscariage or abortion.","Still Usable But All Rusted Underneath.","What does Yamete kudasai mean?","Leaking Oil To Under Side.","Credentials leaked in public?","Add the Share icon.","Treaty, having regard for the factors then affecting peace and security in the North Atlantic area, including the development of universal as well as regional arrangements under the Charter of the United Nations for the maintenance of international peace and security.","The Shorthand Or Abbreviation?","Search by selecting the first letter of the abbreviation or acronym from the menu above.","To criticize, find fault with.","Live fast, die hard.","Looking to Break into the Hedge Fund World?","If so, the answer to both of these questions is yes.","There is, of course, no need to give the abbreviation at all if the organisation is only mentioned once in the piece of writing.","Just today, I found out what SOV means.","Parenthesis, Exponents, Multiply, Divide, Add, Subtract.","Do Not Copy, Distribute or otherwise Disseminate without express permission.","Kamprad grew up, Elmtaryd, and the parish he calls home, Agunnaryd.","Thanks for contributing an answer to Stack Overflow!","Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt.","Here is a humorous example of the WIIFM factor in a selling situation: Airman Peters was assigned to the Air Force induction training centre to explain and sell the Air Force Life Insurance to new conscripts.","Years of experience in Blogging and Digital Marketing.","While an IPO is technically the first sale of stock by a private company to the general public, in some cases the sale is effectively exclusively to investing institutions, such as pension funds and banks.","The version of the OS.","Lady and the Tramp are my OTP.","Renting, Employed, No Deposit.","Punjab: Night Curfew in Hotspots, Curbs on Indoor, Outdoor.","It was so funny; we kegged him on the high street in full view of all the Saturday shoppers.","Find the common abbreviations for thousand, million, billion, trillion and other English words at Writing Explained.","The race was born.","As a deadly new virus spread across the globe, the Harvard community quickly became a hub for researchers, hospitals, and institutes to share their resources and findings.","Some of the other amino acids are phonetically suggestive.","Group Against Smokers Pollution.","We all have a habit to used shortcut methods and we adopt shortcut methods in our social life and also in personal life as well to speak words and writing words.","Seasonal acronym for when work and customers must necessarily fit in around the festivities and holidays.","One of the many amusing acronyms with miltary origins, with wider potential applications.","Ownership, Business processes, Applications, Systems, Hardware, Infrastructure.","Also relevant for project planning and all matters of investing in people, development, plant and equipment, etc: if you want good results then invest properly and act with integrity.","Used in similar deathly fashion in the healthcare industry.","Single Income Two Children Oppressive Mortgage.","AReal News internet facts and this is one of them.","Break the skill or process down to digestible parts.","Or variations of these words.","Previously Undiscovered Recruiting Error.","The letter M is also used when discussing money.","However there is less agreement on the recognised abbreviations for other measures of distances and quantities.","And yet typical corporate interpretations of DRM essentially seek to frustrate this process.","Companion acronym to UTLA.","Extension of TQM, describing the system by which a company manages Total Quality.","And there are some slightly different rules depending on what type of piece you are writing.","Where is everyone this afternoon?","You Always Have Other Options.","Thanks for the invite.","Greek kilo which means a thousand.","Comments may not be acted upon by the Agency until the document is next revised or updated.","As in taking a medicine four times daily.","Eleventh in a sequence or group.","Write the abbreviations for common address words, including streets, buildings, and places.","Find out why thirst, headaches, and infections could be signs of diabetes.","Very Egotistical Stupid Twit.","And it seems that most of us see those meanings as negative.","My thanks to Steve Buonaugurio, who emailed to suggest it was first coined by Tony Robbins.","Interrupt, Patronise, Argue, Threaten, Terminate, Apply Penalties.","Made In Taiwan, Subcontracted Up to the British Isles, Shipped Here Incomplete.","SINOAP represents push and persuade, rather than facilitate and enable; it reminds us of the importance of understanding and empathy.","When first time runners arrive at Frozen Head, they must bring a license plate from their state or country.","Elegant and wonderful acronym for many and various situations, especially explaining and understanding human relationships and communications.","SPIN Selling, are owned by Huthwaite, Inc.","The Division responsible for the review of your device is also available to assist you with any questions about animal testing.","In the Class Listings on the CSU Web, courses are arranged alphabetically by course designator and sequentially by course number.","Thanks, but No Thanks.","Beautiful Engine, Needs To Last Endless Years.","For example, few people know that COBOL stands for Common Business Oriented Language.","Ha, I thought all day that this was a Saturday.","Built Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone.","Please note that the word dildo otherwise refers to an artificial penis and so could cause offence if used in sensitive situations.","This is your last free article.","DAE have an invite code for Google Inbox?","The layout, colors, fonts, borders, spacing, and all other visual elements of a website occur because of the styles declared in CSS.","And you would be correct, thanks to the Greeks.","By implication having little dogs and no kids is not a genetic or hereditary tendency.","NAAFI staff who display a lack of motivation, arguably resulting from low incentive, and by comparison with their customers, a relatively safe existence.","Tens of thousands of Africans have taken the dangerous route to find a better life in Europe, while others are escaping wars in the Middle East, especially Syria and Afghanistan.","UK training and development.","For more info about the coronavirus, see cdc.","In addition to providing some interesting examples of attitudes, humour and the adaptability of language, these barbed interpretations also serve to show that cars can give rise to strong feelings and bias.","It gives me equal.","Possibly the most outrageous acronym in this listing.","As we mix our traditions, it sometimes becomes difficult to know what someone intends to convey expressing thousands or millions in an abbreviation.","An acronym made popular by motivational writer and speaker Zig Ziglar.","Oh Flip I Never Thought Of That.","Go out and hug a tree.","Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.","Again originally an accounting term for depreciation practice, whereby the oldest assets are the last to be written off.","Port Out Starboard Home.","KPMG study or KPMG report.","Rather than an abbreviation, this is an emoticon, a picture created in text.","Oneprimary correspondent, by name and title, with their current phone numberand email address.","Street Bridge Ninth Avenue Bldg.","Less helpfully YOYO can refer to desertion or neglect, or poorly managed delegation when a task is given with inadequate consideration for instruction and support, etc.","Be mindful of this risk whenever you see such examples or suggestions.","The picture is on a wall in a house in Liverpool, left by US troops billeted there in the Second World War.","Already a print subscriber?","Seemingly the FUGAZI acronym was first coined by US troops in Vietnam.","Here are the States in an array with Latitude Longitude Coordinates.","Import Bank of the United Statesf.","Shortcut letter links listed only if there are words that start with that letter.","Well Off Older Folk.","Classic situational analysis headings, guaranteed to prompt nods of approval when used in business presentations.","But the truth remains, the Bible having been translated several times, its original language is lost.","Alive no evidence of disease.","In an app like Buffer, the user interface is the buttons, the composer windows, the screen and mouse and keyboard.","Reference to a person or group exhibiting encouraging signs of understanding and capability, and then failing to act or respond due to some sort of serious and usually permanent malfunction.","Are you worried about sounding uncool or robotic via text message?","The words that your friend, family member, coworker, or partner has chosen reveal a great deal about their intent.","TL E G S Netherlands ma di woe don vrij zat zon Norway Ma.","Brian Brettschneider is a climate scientist in Anchorage Alaska.","She earned her Ph.","Every quality company has these things in place.","With thanks to Kevin Thomas.","Here in one section are all the healthcare acronyms featured in the dictionary above.","Babe In Total Control of Herself.","Causes of changes of stool color can range from foods a person eats, medication, diseases or conditions, pregnancy, cancer, or tumors.","The main point is that rectifying the problem is only half the story; you need to ensure there is no recurrence.","You can be updated with the latest internet facts and this is one of them.","Airplane Lands In Turin And Luggage In Ancona.","But Will It Arrive?","Should Have Ordered This In Time.","The Chicago Manual of Style is a registered trademark of The University of Chicago.","Useful acronym for coaching and giving feedback to people.","Vampire movie flick when the song Thousand years played on loop.","Now that all the numbers increase further, you can multiply the value of these two.","Fears are truly conquered when we confront them.","Too late to change it now though.","If Annie wants to pass her exams then she needs a good kick up the backside.","SPOOLA people still exist, but the term is no longer a fitting reflection of the fashions they follow.","In It For Me?","Copyright infringements are treated very seriously, and where previous such incidents have occurred, the copyrighted material successfully removed, either voluntarily or through legal recourse.","Course designators and numbers are listed alphabetically in this column under their subject areas.","Luckily, we have a college student on staff to help us navigate those times.","It is certainly true and generally forgotten in the heat of an argument or other stressful situation, that becoming overly emotional is rarely helpful, and usually damaging to all concerned.","SOund NAvigation and Ranging.","Such A Bad Experience, Never Again.","The Division responsible for the review of your device is also available to assist you with any questions about studies.","National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health.","Company registered in England No.","No, create an account now.","The Government of the United States of America will inform each of the Parties of the deposit of each such instrument of accession.","Extension of the MBWA management technique.","Apparently from the IT services community, see also DISFOB and PEBCAK.","As you can see, acronyms all become words in their own right, because they are pronounceable.","Gift card for Giftees!","When using acronyms and abbreviations for serious and intentionally open communications ensure that definitions and meanings are understood or explained, or the acronym defeats its own purpose.","How long the HCM expression lasts, and the notion that it is very different really from modern Human Resources Management, remains to be seen.","Another ODSA, but perfectly admissable outside the medical arena, such as counselling or stress training.","What does What he said in this voice clip?","STEPPPA is sometimes wrongly shown as STEPPA, reflecting the combination of the Plan and Pace elements.","Schuster under exclusive license.","In order to continue enjoying our site, we ask that you confirm your identity as a human.","Anyone need help figuring out the Facebook News Feed?","The special K has been loved by many people in Korea since last year.","Usually a humorous disclaimer that something formerly innocent is going to be irreparably sullied if you click the link.","Whether you are working on mastering medical abbreviations or just looking for a review, feel free to consult our comprehensive guide to nursing acronyms and abbreviations used in hospitals across the United States.","Moves All Extremities Well.","If you find an online conversation with somebody to be boring or having an argument with anohter person online using K kills the conversation and will probably piss the other person off.","NHS dentists, general practitioners, Spanish holiday tattoo parlours, etc.","Append product to description.","Well, I hate to break it to you, but you have probably made a lot of people feel shitty.","Excellent term for covert customer service communications.","Originated in the Australian Army and now deservedly in wider use.","Insurance traditionally operates in a similar way, by which brokers underwrite risks, but basically insurance claims are paid from the funds which are created by premiums from those seeking to insure themselves.","However bytes are seldom mentioned without a prefixed multiple such as kilo for thousand, mega for million, giga for a billion, or exa for a billion giga, ie, a billion billion.","For the love of St Fagos.","Queens, NY, passing the same playground, ball fields, and high school, all on punishing concrete.","Will printing more money during COVID cause hyperinflation?","From the Latin terminology per os.","An idiot, an objectionable person.","Great to meet you!","Your browser will redirect to your requested content shortly.","In order to facilitate our reviews, we recommend you retain the section headings in the sequence listed.","Typically applicable to the male of the species, and especially applicable when subject is wearing said garment.","To use an analogy, user interface is the saddle, the stirrups, and the reins.","The three main types of listening.","We use Google Analytics here at Buffer to pull reports on our most popular content and set goals for conversions of Buffer blog readers to Buffer app customers.","Greatest Of All Time.","Capital letter will be automatically converted to small letter.","Tired can mean resting and recovering.","Balanced, Observed, Objective, Specific, Timely, Enhancing, Relevant.","This form of the acronym is of course eminently transferable to all orgnisational situations where managers fail to notice their mistakes, and also fail to notice the generosity of their staff, who bail them out and never mention a thing.","Electronic Point Of Sale.","Retired Old Men Eating Out.","Association and Manufacturing are not abbreviated.","Company and Corporation are not abbreviated in names of Federal Government units.","Funny Looking Kid, Funny Looking Parents.","To fraudulently use dud or stolen cheques.","Are Smartphones Making Us Stupid?","Sign In Sod Off.","Joint Industry Committee for National Readership Surveys.","Please enter your last name.","These and other unfathomable questions will not be answered here and now, but in the way future generations look back on it all.","They get run over.","Life After Divorce Is Eventually Saner.","The armed forces offer relatively short timescales by which staff can retire on a full pension, hence the expression to describe people who fail to make the most of their opportunities and efforts.","At first glance this acronym is only of use if you are involved in teaching English as a foreign language.","These dark and wonderful acronyms are now available for us all to use and enjoy, as most of them are applicable far beyond the medical world.","Timely, Timed, Timetabled, Trackable, Tangible; Evaluated, Enjoyable; Rewarded, Rewarding.","At a simple level, an activity that scores low on all three scales is obviously low priority; whereas an activity that scores high on all three scales is a high priority.","Their only problem was their last name.","We all have patterns.","Please attempt to sign up again.","Just Flipping Do It.","Fanatical, Insecure, Neurotic and Emotional.","Six Sigma seems now to be, could have come up with a more memorable mnemonic.","It can be challenging to keep up with the lingo, especially as a new nurse.","European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.","Closed questions, which generally prompt yes or no answers, typically begin with phrases such as: Is it.","If you know better please tell me.","Perhaps based ironically and unfairly on the admirable Wagner Free Institute of the US which provides the oldest free adult education programme in America, as well as a huge library and information service covering scientific history.","Answers on a postcard please.","GAAFOFY is also a super acronym for daft questions received in a training, teaching and coaching context.","Is the device provided sterile?","Runners explore iconic Welsh areas over the five days include Carneddau, Glyders, Snowdon, Moelwyns, Rhinogs, Cadair Idris, Plynlimon, Elan Valley and Brecon Beacons.","What a person needs to get the motivated, working or moving.","IBM per se of course.","Amusing twist on the YUPPIE theme.","Where and When is K Observed?","Four cornerstones of sustainable success and a maxim for modern management and organisational philosophy.","The race was founded by Colin and Tess Geddes.","United States Steel Corp.","Low levels of hemoglobin may be caused by anemia, blood loss, nutritional deficiency, bone marrow problems, chemotherapy, kidney failure, or sickle cell disease.","We sure did and this is what we have found after all these years.","PERT is a specialised tool within project management and so tends to be used alongside, or as a detailed feed into, broader project management methods.","Submarine Detection Investigation Committee.","These are not references to incest.","Wiktionary, the free dictionary.","Like any industry, ours uses a variety of abbreviations and acronyms.","Then, most importantly, you crawl back into the can after.","Social Media Marketing World this year.","No Income, No Job or Assets.","If you go looking for Mr.","Businessballs is a free ethical learning and development resource for people and organizations.","What is an Acronym?","Every user running the Internet faces this.","Any time, Any place, Anywhere.","Specialist Burns Unit at Whiston Hospital in Merseyside, used by the Merseyside Regional Ambulance service and no doubt elsewhere too.","People are more interested in what improvements a product or service will bring rather than a description of what is being sold.","You might think of it as a form of online market share.","CIA, FBI, BBC, and VOA.","Like Man crush Monday, Woman crush Wednesday is a chance for social media users to share an update or a photo with reference to a woman they like or admire.","The principle is easily applicable with a little adaptation for certain types of presentations.","Cassini Software Ltd, run by Cloughley and Wallis.","Compulsive Use Of Acronyms.","Most of the words listed are only abbreviated in certain contexts, esp.","Alternatively, the doctor might DC a patient from the hospital.","See PEARL and LANO also.","Cover Letter with your submission.","As in taking a medicine each evening.","Fat ankles and calves that lack definition and appear to merge.","Pupils equal, round, and reactive to light and accommodation.","Soon enough, new words like Kiloliter, Kilogram, Kilotonne, etc.","This abbreviation is usually preceded by or in reference to something someone did that was brave, foolish, or spontaneous.","Negative, Ignorant, Greedy, Hopeless, Thankless, Miserable, Angry, Rude, Envious.","Highly amusing healthcare abbreviation to describe a condition suffered by clinical staff.","The term has wider applications, particularly rock festival car parks, overcrowded tube trains and airport buses.","Stripped Pine, Olive Oil, Laura Ashley.","Divide, Multiply, Add, Subtract.","Abbreviations that can be pronounced are usually acronyms, ie, words formed from or based on the initial letters or syllables of other words, such as radar, NATO, UNESCO.","How Do We Learn to Decode Texts?","Healthcare acronym referring a little unsympathetically to a patient undergoing treatment of an experimental or desperate nature.","Define opportunity, Measure performance, Analyse opportunity, Improve performance, Control performance.","They are a fascinating reflection of the development of communications, language and social attitudes.","Not safe for work.","Less earthy and somewhat more detached than the MILF alternative.","RISE Method of Personal Change.","What exactly are accessibility overlays?","Some rules for geeks can be derived based on logic and generally accepted forms for abbreviations in other contexts.","But punctuation is very important in writing and dialogue, so why not give it a little extra attention in your texting habits?","The device comparison table should outline the differences and similarities between your device and the predicate.","This notation means that from the standpoint of the temperature, blood pressure, and pulse, the patient is doing well.","One of the all time great acronyms, and so true.","See you in a few!","Where the DFI effect arises, this aspect of leadership is almost certainly missing.","Especially at the golf club.","Used for sharing a funny or interesting quote, QOTD will often appear in a hashtag following the quote.","Is Is a Verb?","Or end a sentence with a million exclamation points.","Antidote to the TLA.","Impressively, the race organizers make sure participants have Internet access and phone service so they can keep in contact with family and sponsors.","Texting and instant messaging have eliminated the need for some words and phrases entirely, and many keyboards even supply our ideas for us, offering possible next words for our sentences using predictive text.","Anyone interested in chatting about small biz marketing?","Cleverer than a straightforward TOTB acronym, the expression elegantly describes a creative thinker, or the creative act.","It is not a replacement for those documents.","Destined to become one of those abbreviations which nobody knows the origin of in thirty years time, and here mainly lest we forget.","For use in arguments and discussions online.","Word of mouth has some huge implications for growth, and it spreads even faster as social media expands as a medium.","Beware of ageism risks if relating this to the conventional meaning.","Carroll, working at Nike at the time, noticed that clear DREAM bands were being put as giveaways in boxes of Kevin Garnett shoes.","Cerca Trova is Italian, and not Latin, as previously stated here.","Checklist system popular in private pilot licence training for stall recovery and also used prior to aerobatics.","Belgium, Canada, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States, have been deposited and shall come into effect with respect to other States on the date of the deposit of their ratifications.","National Television System Committee.","Daughters of the American Revolutiond.","Guide To The Galaxy; now in wider use: eg.","OBE is seemingly used in this way in US Defense and US Defense contracting, referring to plans or situations rendered obsolete for the reason implied.","Facebook page, how many people does this equal?","Text arguing is also unlikely to lead to a satisfactory resolution.","Pupils Equal, Round, Reactive to Light and Accommodate to distance.","An amusing, informal and critical reference, used mainly when summarising a misguided or poorly managed venture.","OP stated it best in her original question.","First Of A Kind.","Craig, he knows his onions when it comes to repairing car engines.","This motto of the downtrodden has been around for decades.","Chang and Eng remained joined until their death, which was within hours of each other; apparently Eng woke one morning to discover Chang had died in the night, and Eng died of shock as a result, after refusing to be separated.","You have a choice whether to be part of the steam roller or part of the road.","Courtesy Mr Bull, of the England Rugby Union national team coaching staff.","Young people find and use things that are useful, whether they are supposed to or not.","The UK Net Book Agreement, as was.","Check the box if you do not wish to receive promotional offers via email from TIME.","Charter of the Parties which are members of the United Nations, or the primary responsibility of the Security Council for the maintenance of international peace and security.","The human body and mind are capable of far more than we realise.","Pretty soon, Carroll was handing them out by the thousands.","The instruments of ratification shall be deposited as soon as possible with the Government of the United States of America, which will notify all the other signatories of each deposit.","These are reflexes that the doctor tests by banging on the tendons with a rubber hammer.","They could help solve the homelessness problem, for example.","CMYK colours, resulting in a darker tone of black.","If Not, The Operating System Hangs.","In the Army and Marines, this area is called a military occupational specialty; in the Navy it is known as a rate; and in the Air Force it is simply called an Air Force specialty.","In Case of A Balls Up.","Climate change is a global threat that requires an urgent response.","Ever Leave The Airport.","One Income, No Kids Yet.","You can add your own commentary before or after.","Disclaimer: Reliance on this material and any related provision is at your sole risk.","See also IKWIWWISI below.","Background, Objectives, Scope, Constraints, Assumptions, Reporting, Dependencies, Estimates, Timescales.","Incidentally the cartoon is from that time, and was drawn for George by Colin Howard.","Wind, Reel And Print.","Words: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December, year, month, hour, minute, second, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.","Can you spot the liar?","SEO refers to the practice of optimizing a website so that it ranks highly in search engine result pages.","Learn more about our services and how we can help you.","The abbreviation of the word abbreviation is abbrev.","If not, you will get full information about it in this post.","JIT was and is used successfully by highly efficient manufacturing corporations, notably the Japanese, and has been enabled by computerization especially to analyse and manage timings rather than stock levels.","Tired can mean natural and authentic.","The Task provides the Pressure element which when applied to the Technique produces Skill.","Ship High In Transit.","Away With The Fairies.","How do you abbreviate thousand?","Marketing people use the term a lot in referring to targeting and profiling of market sectors, and in reporting commercial statistics and performance.","English Language Learners Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for speakers of other languages learning English.","The constituents required for people to succeed at what they do, individually and collectively.","We also recommend that you identify all models, as well as all accessories included in the submission.","One of her interests was in enhancing the ability of women to successfully pursue careers in the sciences.","FUBAR, for whom it is now too late for effective treatment.","US and UK, particularly so in the UK.","Instead, each footstep can be absorbed by the sand in parts of the race, causing runners to drag, slide and slog their way through.","Brazil, Russia, India, China.","Driving slowly to view and procure the services of prostitutes working the street.","What percentage of the human body is water?","In those two examples we calculate the brackets first.","MM for millions, and B for billions.","Typically with reference to a car, mechanically and performance enhanced, restyled to look extra sporty.","No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.","An exclamation of anger.","Low blood pressure, also referred to as hypotension, is blood pressure that is so low that it causes symptoms or signs due to the low flow of blood through the arteries and veins.","An exclamation of disagreement or annoyance.","Check out this sunset!","General Motors Acceptance Corp.","Netherlands; orange is the color of the Dutch royal family dating all the way back to William of Orange.","KPIs are the benchmarks and goals that are most important for your business.","Activity recording is turned off.","Read The Flipping Question Twice.","Manu National Park in Peru.","Health and Safety manual handling checklist mnemonic.","Businessballs Ltd assumes no responsibility for any errors or damages arising as a result of use.","No longer politically correct in the clinical arena, this term is used on notes or charts to denote a patient who is in a confused or demented state.","SMB means precisely the same thing all around the world.","Possibly named due to the nature of their movements during activity.","English and slang name for the game of darts, seemingly used in Yorkshire.","Beware potential discrimination litigation hazards, ie.","There is apparently no mention of GMY in British or German signal books from WWII.","What does gotcha mean?","Does this picture show an Arizona fire department extinguishing a fire in Mexico?","Most are from The Chambers Dictionary, though a minority have been added as per vox populi usage.","American Association of Retired Personsabbr.","So what is that?","Take Out Back And SHoot.","Transfers easily to other environments, including work situations.","Husband Is Village Idiot.","The Harvard Medical School community looks back at year one of the pandemic.","What You Get Is What You Deserve.","Toni: I have got us tickets for the game on Saturday!","Are we ready for takeoff?","Whoever gets there first wins.","Nurses and doctors shorthand acronym.","Except as otherwise designated, points and spaces are omitted er initials used as shortened names of governmental agencies and of other organized bodies.","Hyde for alerting me to this omission in the list, and to R Farley for pointing me towards the ITMA origin.","What You See Is What You Get.","Latin American Spanish, loaded up your Netflix queue with Spanish language movies and have just started to acquire Spanish speaking friends.","The PBP expression is therefore extremely transferable to all types of work, relationship and service situations.","Cerebral of course relates to the brain and thinking, from Greek kara, meaning head, and later Latin cerebrum, meaning brain.","The concept can change the world.","Permanent and Irrecoverable State of Alcoholism.","Effectively means that no liability is accepted for mistakes and omissions.","Platform in this sense means the technology and code on which a website operates.","FDA will consider alternatives to clinical studies when the proposed alternatives are supported by an adequate scientific rationale.","Banking and insurance are two obvious examples.","Deo volente, God willingdwt.","It is now frighteningly easy to buy things, and this ease progressively increases.","Thanks pointing out this glaring omission BC.","For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge.","CRM is a way of managing the interaction and communication between your business and its leads or customers.","Whenever possible, I try to make code fix errors instead of just throwing them back to the users.","Want to reply or ask your own question?","Body Off Baywatch, Face Off Crimewatch.","Historiae Societatis Socius, Fellow of the Historical Societyh.","This is so great.","And heres an object for the above.","PERT contains various standardized symbols within its diagram format.","No seat max overrides allowed.","Younger brother to QUANGO, and not nearly so famous.","What You See Before You Get It.","Flip If I Know.","We recommend that you use this section to provide the indications for use statement.","NORWICH, SWALK, HOLLAND, BURMA, CHIP, etc.","If you continue with this browser, you may see unexpected results.","Therefore, it is important to understand the context in which the abbreviation or term has been used.","This campaign is all about support at work!","JIT management requires total commitment to quality and efficiency or the supply chain breaks down and operations come to a halt.","The Class III Summary a summary of the types of safety and effectiveness problems associated with the type of devices being compared and a citation to the information upon which the summary is based.","Such disciplines encompass and enable highly significant sectors of work, skills, and services, for example manufacturing, and development in science and technology, extending to inventions of all sorts, and computing and communications in all guises.","Forget It, Stuff Happens.","An acronym that can be applied anywhere.","United States must be spelled out when appearing in a sentence containing the name of another country.","Perhaps one of the silliest and most wonderful reverse acronyms ever to have been devised.","Government Owned, Contractor Operated.","Next year a new route will have to be chosen because the Ice Road to Tuktoyaktuk will no longer exist.","Treatments of sinus infections are generally with antibiotics and at times, home remedies.","Attention, Interest, Desire, Action.","As in taking a medicine before meals.","The begs certain questions of IP owners and also of those who might challenge their behaviour and motives.","Of a person, short in height.","Some people love them, others loathe them.","Retrospectively applied meaning to the NALGO trade union name.","Perhaps only marginally less contradictory than GAAP, but they do exist, honestly.","Wash Iron Fornicate Etc.","With breakthroughs in science, medicine, and technology, many new and complicated terms and concepts were created.","Sounds like it should be a TV game show.","Makes a good quiz question.","Decisions about your treatment should always be taken in consultation with your doctor.","Means by which retail prices are controlled by primary suppliers.","With acknowledgements to Steve Cottrell.","Notify me of new posts by email.","Can ask all types of general questions and can understand longer answers.","Can understand long, complex answers.","ADVERTISEMENT: Radiopaedia is free thanks to our supporters and advertisers.","Words: height, weight, number, volume, degree, dozen, percent, altitude, latitude, longitude, teaspoon, tablespoon, inch, foot, yard, mile, miles per hour, ounce, pound, ton, gallon, quart, pint, cup, Fahrenheit.","There is a lesson here to us all, in always seeking ways to turn negatives into positives.","Fecal Air Rectally Transmitted.","Cantrell decides that year.","Left Brains In Airport Carpark.","Nickers Off Ready When I Come Home.","Quasi Autonomous Local Government organization.","Ack Dr Neale Roney.","Old Republic Surety Company.","To cripple someone by shooting or hitting their kneecaps as a means of punishment.","The purpose of this capitalisation is to make the abbreviation more recognisable as such which, in these cases, outweighs the need to keep the flow of words as smooth as possible.","For project management training, and many other situations that would benefit from improved attention to detail.","IPOs because the risks are big and often the launch turns out to be a big loss for investors.","Simple and often effective abbreviation, for accelerating and prioritising projects, activities, requests, etc.","These backronyms are not a reference to the Adidas company, merely wordplay using the name.","As featured in countless American police chase movies when the good guys are rushing out the description of the bad guys in the first frantic APB.","PR Smith, whom you can find at prsmith.","Ironic and actually very prevalent alternative approach to WYSIWYG.","Chronological Random Ascending Pile.","Not To Be Resuscitated.","Found On Roadside, Dead.","So fast that the e, r, and y just get in the way.","In some instances, the information in a particular section may not apply to your device.","Say Only Nice Things To All People.","Your Mileage May Vary.","Because with a black eye you can only keek, meaning peep.","There is typically no cost, other than a little time, although the giver may decide to spend personal funds towards the act.","User experience describes the way a user feels when using a website or a product.","Body weight is often recorded as part of the physical examination.","Thus we have F, C and W for fahrenheit, centigrade and watt respectively.","Without Loss Of Generality.","But to be honest, there are potential flaws.","Jungle Ultra is for you.","Not in Employment, Education or Training.","Perhaps they are a parent and the kids are going wild around them.","World Cup in Germany.","MBWA method to have a chance to be effective.","Random act of Kindness.","An idiot, a contemptible person.","This website and all its content is protected under international copyright law.","Just In Time International Aid, etc.","Been a long week.","URL is the web address for a specific page.","Obviously this is the more polite version, included here because of its historical interest.","This table is included for reference only.","LDL is an occupational health term, increasingly finding its way into mainstream management discussion.","Information on how Harvard is structured, explore our long history, and discover our extended community.","Opinions of the Attorney Generalop.","Getting technical, proper representation using roman numerals would be simply MM with a bar over it.","Is a Sports Management Degree Worth it?","Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation.","PR hype and often highly debatable interpretations of market conditions and future performance of company.","This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.","Fraternitatis Regiae Socius, Fellow of the Royal Societyf.","While BLUF remains popular in US military communications, its usefulness has spread and its adoption can be helpful into very many situations where effective speedy communication is valued.","Do not share my Personal Information.","Help can be very effective with or without the support of a real person, and we should expect to see significant development and availability of CASH products and services, offered via data storage devices and online through websites and intranets, etc.","What is the correct abbreviation for thousands, millions, billions and trillions in a financial context?","Unusually Nasty Infection; Vultures Are Circling.","Everything To Attract Men.","New theory explains origin of comet that killed the dinosaurs.","Be careful with the percentages of CMYK used in making rich black.","Bottom Line Up Front.","Young, Attractive, Verbal, Intelligent, Successful.","Interested in Web Development, Data Science, and NLP.","So perhaps we should begin thinking about what to do with all these university buildings everywhere.","But you must be thinking that Thousand is called Thousand in English, so why T is not used for this.","DJ refers to the band in this way.","Low Job Decision Latitude is a longer version of the term.","Harvard scientists say airports are employing a layered approach to make air travel safer for those who must fly.","Pain In The Arse.","NVQ accreditation typically demands.","Australia; probably elsewhere too.","Amusingly neat and discreet way to tell someone when his trouser fly is open.","Identify the issues, priorities, constraints, resources; Design the plan; Execute the plan; Augment, refine, adjust and improve activies to consolidate change.","The NAAFI traditionally run shops and bars within forces establishments.","Does anyone know the origin and the proper usage?","Societas Sanctae Crucis, Society of the Holy Crossstat.","There is no standard or approved list used by health care professionals to search for medical acronyms or abbreviations.","What do you have against Delware?","There are nationality quotas to make sure runners worldwide get an even chance to participate.","The expression is potentially applicable widely beyond consulting, to any situation in which the identification of the full range of distinctively different methods, options, answers, etc.","Abbreviations, however, can take a variety of inconsistent forms in magazines and corporate literature, and few abbreviations have been standardised.","Wind Assisted Flaming Idiot.","It is still used in instances like CPM, or cost per thousand impressions.","The patient arrived in the ER alive with no evidence of disease.","Filling in the missing two words was obviously irresistible to someone.","SUMO acronym is a powerful maxim for a positive successful approach to life and work.","Acronyms and abbreviations for medical terms are frequently used by healthcare providers.","In college I did a lot of bowl searching.","It took Pheidippides a day to get there, Greek historian Herodotus claims.","See NOCD and PLU for other snobbish code.","The transference of knowledge and technology among people around the world, and from one generation to the next, is what determines human progress.","Latitude here means scope or flexibility.","Thank you very much for your cooperation.","Buck Up For Flips Sake.","Insider is a publication of Insider Inc.","The Eagle Scout: Go out into the woods and build yourself a nest.","Another useful acronym for trainers to explain different aspects of learning.","Payne for the prompt.","But note that it might sound unprofessional if you use too many abbreviations in your application.","The ways in which we communicate via text have changed a lot since the days of AOL instant messenger.","Some areas involved have included the mountains of Torres del Paine and the Cordillera Darwin, the plains and hills of Tierra del Fuego and Isla Riesco, and the freezing water of the Strait of Magellan and the Beagle Channel.","Consider the value of the customer and not the cost of resolving this particular issue.","The WAFI leader is a sad phenomenon of the modern age that will come to an end when ordinary people use their collective power to change things.","Kevin Carroll, former NBA trainer, motivational speaker and author.","Cover Arse, Remain Employed.","Companies that focus on selling to consumers.","To stay free, we rely on revenue from ads.","From the Fire Rescue Service in Georgia US, and no doubt used elsewhere too.","Marine corporal are considered NCO ranks.","National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrationn.","Long Island, Staten Island, etc.","TTFN and ZNN is the same.","Climbing to the top of the Mount Everest was the most knackering thing I have ever done.","Manage processes, Change culture, Improve communications, Show commitment.","Acronym Finder, All Rights Reserved.","Spanish painter Francisco Goya was actually quite prolific and probably needed no such encouragement.","For example, training session syndicate work when groups leave the watchful eye of the facilitator, or for positioning unsupervised tasks and assignments.","In certain ways, CRM is like an address book with super powers.","President Of The United States.","Chicago style has evolved.","Various applications, including references to property and people, the image is one of exhausted or useless wealth or luxury.","The words full form always makes people curious and desire to know about this.","The body which established and runs the ABC social grades classification system, much used by media and marketing folk.","Presented with a third option, which should you use?","For my needs, I had to retype them Capitalized and remove the territories.","The flesh and the body do not want to do sixty miles per day.","Identify and then work on things that will produce the best yield in your chosen area.","Use it to illustrate the fleeting nature of success, the whimsical nature of swarming humankind, or the fact, simply, that every dog has its day.","To remain cheerful, to not let the situation get one down.","Does a draw on the board need to be declared before the time flag is reached?","Maybe they were about to get on the road and drive somewhere.","Seasonal acronym explaining why most business comes to a grinding stop for two whole weeks at the end of the year.","Are Smartphone Cameras as Good as a DSLR?","Identify, Define, Explore, Action, Lookback.","Day Off, Not Flipping Interested.","For fuller descriptions and contributors where applicable see the entries as they appear above.","Ion abbreviation for billion?","FDA acceptance of clinical data from investigations conducted outside the US when submitted to support premarket submissions.","Terms of service are the legal notices for browsing a website or using an app.","Does this one letter text response have a loaded meaning?","You can change your cookie settings at any time.","Amusing pet name for a vibrator, and perhaps the cleverest and funniest BOB bacronym.","Persons In Need of Supervision.","CMS is software used to organize, edit, and publish content.","Single Income No Boyfriend And Desperate.","NH, NY, or NM.","Now things start to get a bit more serious.","Asshole Of The Year Award.","The acronym reminds us that many crisis situations become less of a crisis given time and tolerance.","For the best experience, update your browser to the latest version, or switch to another browser.","Write the abbreviations for people, occupations, titles, and rank.","Read The Question Twice.","The Hestia website is actually a fascinating example of several aspects of modern marketing, not least the use of irony and humour.","Originally an accounting term, to provide a convention for writing down the balance sheet value of assets of the same type.","Mi Fi F\u00f6 Lau Su Ireland Mon.","And monetary abbreviations is certainly not one of them.","Read about high blood pressure medications, diet, and long term treatments.","Nomenclature and Symbolism for Amino Acids and Peptides.","This code language gives websites their look.","Below the knee amputation.","London Transport referring to a blind or partially sighted person needing assistance.","Define, Review, Identify, Verify, Execute.","Set to zero if you do not want the button text to change.","Fandom may earn an affiliate commission on sales made from links on this page.","Losing in the final after all that hard work through the season was a kick in the bollocks.","The acronym is useful to remind all exponents of poor customer service how not to do it.","Height, Airframe, Security, Engine, Location, Lookout.","An abbreviation is a shortening of a word or a phrase.","PR inferred a claim to having originated the MINT concept too.","Is a junk shop piano less worthy than a modern electronic keyboard?","Time from diagnosis to relapse or death.","Demographics acronym from the Bridget Jones era.","GEM is especially relevant for beating competition and delighting customers.","You Fouled It, You Fix it.","Cost Per Inquiry and Cost Per Conversion.","The nucleotide base codes that are used with the International Nucleotide Sequence Database is as follows.","This is not an exhaustive list and attempts only to include the more creative, interesting and amusing examples.","Animate the search bar opening.","If you are a manager and like to manage by walking about make sure you do it with humility and genuine interest.","The symbol for Kelvin, the SI unit of absolute temperature.","CARAT is not, despite the very worthy aims and activities which underpin it.","Martin Luther King, Jr.","Proof Only Rich Shits Can Have Everything.","Musical Gear Box Grinds Teeth.","This comment has been minimized.","Other organisations, which cannot be pronounced as words, usually require the definite article, eg, the CIA, the BBC, and the UNHCR.","WYSIWYG is now common computer jargon, although not always true.","Google VRP in my free time.","Sometimes, when the location is other than a regular classroom, the location is listed in a course comment immediately below the section information.","PERT remains closely related to Critical Path Analysis, for modelling effects in detail of large numbers of related timed events within a project.","Patrias K, author; Wendling D, editor.","Arrogance, Ignorance and Greed.","However, this is how it looks on the social media network.","Also, some articles or notes may include this abbreviation in lieu of a summary heading.","TVs, computers, and all sorts of other products which people buy and consume, or discard very quickly, often because the product has broken or become obsolete, or is no longer compatible.","Amusing and highly efficient, and transferable to a wide variety of situations.","Philosophically flexible for all sorts of situations in which a little delaying of gratification might be more helpful than reckless squandering or consumption.","Duly certified copies will be transmitted by that Government to the Governments of other signatories.","Now, due to trade and travel, the concept spread across the world until the whole world was connected on the same page weight!","STEM lobby, there are desperate shortages of skills and people in the vast and vital engineering and scientific disciplines.","Stool color changes can very from green, red, maroon, yellow, white, or black.","Conversations with the most influential leaders in business and tech.","Please note that there are variations.","It means message received, roger that.","Prayers In the Air.","BIRGing terminology and concept, and conducted extensive research demonstrating BIRGing behaviour theory and its wide existence.","Not Safe For Work.","Put In New Transmission Often.","Detect Blink layout engine.","Used by medical and healthcare folk to describe an infant or newborn whose looks are unlikely to provide a passport to fame and fortune.","Show the tooltip on Share This Record buttons.","There is the true story of the meeting that took place in a particular government office to discuss the effects of EMU.","The deluxe version of the SMART acronym, a blueprint for all objectives and responsibilities, especially delegation, for oneself or when agreeing objectives, tasks and projects with others.","Intoxicated Through Substance Abuse.","People are always looking for shortcuts.","As in taking a medicine each morning.","To view this site, enable cookies in your browser.","So we have to become good texters.","RAdio Detection And Ranging.","You Only Get Out What You Put In.","Matter Of Life And Death.","Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages.","Simply use the list below.","Fouled Up Beyond Belief.","It is surprising that a bacronym seems not yet to have been devised for this abbreviation; perhaps one has.","Stupid Pathetic Annoying Messages.","Use either or both in business presentations to impress and convince your audience that you know a bit about marketing.","The owner of it will not be notified.","The Term name describes the part of term during which the course will be taught.","Abbreviations that are combinations of several words, each of which is abbreviated to more than one letter, are a mixture of capital and lower case letters.","DREAM, to explore various fundamental attitudes, central to achievment and fulfilment, which are generally matters of personal choice and so can be altered at will given suitable enlightenment and purpose.","National Institute of Standards and Technologyn.","IT services forming part of government services.","Legal and police acronym describing theft of some sort.","For the other amino acids, the first letter of the name is not unique to a single amino acid, so Dr.","Puts suggestion in the field.","TED is a very useful reminder.","IUB Joint Commission on Biochemical Nomenclature.","Click here to learn more.","Hi, I am Anshul Author of the Arealnews.","Shot At Dawn Campaign.","Albumin to globulin ratio.","Today Britain is very keen to patronise and impose our holier than thou ideas on the developing world.","An old acronym that is just as useful today as when first devised.","The patient was moved to the intensive care unit.","Single Person Evaluation Worksheet.","Usually hurried sex in an attempt to grab the moment.","Flipping Ridiculous Electronic Device.","Florida, she grew up with a Brazilian family and has also lived and worked in Colombia, Brazil, Spain, Portugal, and Chile.","Wet Arse No Fish.","Read The Flipping Manual.","From the New York Times, Mar.","Dozens of companies use acronyms or initials in their names, but how well do you know what the abbreviated letters mean?","The sum of all experiences a customer has with you.","God help us all.","For those at the bottom of the world that use states and where English is the primary language.","Cagney and Lacey, Kojak, Starsky and Hutch.","You must show serious and honest concern for the customer seriousl, which you will begin to do by listening.","There are fruitier interpretations of the word Forget of course.","This award is aimed towards women of very high promise who have not yet reached a position of high recognition within the structure of academic society.","Rough Engineering Made Easy.","Not a lot of people know that.","Remove any of the three legs and the structure falls over.","Super acronym for training and development, especially sales and account management, since these three components are essential for success and productive performance.","Even now people have started using them in typing.","Based on a few comments from this amusing thread.","What Happens with a Bond Claim?","SIM, as in SIM card.","More individually BIRGing can be seen when people affiliate seriously and very openly with a popular local person or entity, such as a leader or project or cause.","To quickly drink or eat, to gulp down.","Any connection is purely coincidental, as the saying goes.","Do you disagree with something on this page?","Title abbreviations for journals in the areas of biology and chemistry.","Exclamation of anger or surprise.","Latin American Free Trade Associationlat.","Thanks Tom Calvert for pointing out this omission.","Each style has its own logic and its own set of traditions, tailored to specific types of writing and specific audiences, and Chicago is no different in being different from the others.","Shorthand used by some in considering or targeting the traditional four main languages of the European market and the demographics and communications variations required to address it.","Rest, Ice, Compression and Elevation.","Social media will play an increasingly crucial role in supporting small business growth.","Back Of Hand On Forehead.","This highly memorable memory device is a fine example of the technique of using bacronym constructions to remember difficult words.","In one acronym we see many different aspects of how we use language and systems to enhance understanding, awareness and procedures.","There are few different ways to abbreviate the word.","For my purposes I needed an array of state arrays that I could add data for each state into each respective array.","Whatsapp and Facebook messenger to send free messages.","The acronym is also a useful analogy for any initiative which would benefit from practical testing instead of relying on theoretical assumption.","All you need to do is write a diary in the language you are learning!","Acronym from Nova Scotia orthopaedics nursing, and widely applicable elsewhere.","Three CHildren, Expanding Debts.","An abbreviated title of the course.","Words: height, weight, number, volume, degree, dozen, percent, altitude, latitude, longitude, teaspoon, tablespoon, meter, centimeter, decimeter, kilometer, kilometers per hour, gram, centigram, kilogram, milligram, liter, millilter, Kelvin, Centigrade, Celsius.","Grotesque, Unbelievable, Bizarre, and Unprecedented.","Basking In Reflected Glory.","Greek and the other from Latin, but neither one is standard.","However, despite the fact that these two terms are, indeed, very similar, they mean slightly different things.","STEPPPA is the correct form.","Was this page helpful?","If you did, this would simply be known as an abbreviation, not an acronym.","These prefixes are part of an international standard, you could view them as culture invariant.","PERT is a specialised project management method, especially in project planning, in which its extensive diagrams enable a very detailed analysis of lots of related activities, especially the timings, implications and opportunities arising from connected events.","IBM corporation at all.","These differences carry themselves into many parts of our culture, including financial analysis.","Modified tweets occur when a user is attempting to manually retweet but the tweet is too long and you have to modify the original tweet.","Know the warning signs and symptoms of high blood pressure.","Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.","Perhaps a little unfair, but need we say more?","Default vars for the plugin but they are never used.","Intravenous fluids are no longer allowed.","Take the social media acronym quiz!","Collection of Small Companies.","This marketing measurement looks at the amount of profit you make based on the difference between revenue and expenses.","Good HRM will always be better than crap HCM.","Write the abbreviations for common metric measurement words, including length, volume and weight words.","Like LOLz, this abbreviation can be used sarcastically as well as seriously.","It depends on what is appropriate.","Appropriate Use of Voluntary Consensus Standards in Premarket Submissions for Medical Devices.","See also UFLA above.","BLUF is a wonderfully potent acronym, useful in many situations.","Dead Right There, There, There, and There.","The Full Transcript from the State of the Union Address.","Becca uses her background in marketing and passion for writing to foster a deeper understanding of the richness and diversity of Latin America.","Avoid conflict with similarly named functions in prototype.","The standard in most banking circles is M and MM particularly in commercial lending.","Could be a great name for the next governement initiative on pensions.","In the metric system lower case k designates kilo as in kg for kilogram, a thousand grams.","The only letter worth five points in the American version of Scrabble, the popular board game.","Fouled Up Beyond All Recognition.","Am Not A Lawyer.","The color of the blood in the stool may provide information about the origin of the bleeding.","As in taking a medicine at bedtime.","The abbreviation is all the more amusing because it looks like some kind of highly official certificate for the construction or maritime industry.","Not On Normal Courtyard Exercise.","Transferable to a wide variety of lost causes.","This itself is normally a very concisely reduced version of a larger summary at the end of the document, based on the greater detail within the main part of the document or communication.","The blood pressure is the pressure of the blood within the arteries.","This one should be obvious.","Trust And Love You.","Of course, if the name of each amino acid began with a different letter, the code would be simple indeed.","It must be said that this acronym is here for interest rather than humour.","Although the video and TV abbreviation is widely used, the meaning and origins are not commonly known.","The UK system of human resources quality and development accreditation system.","Germanic origin; occurring simultaneously in other Germanic languages, usually with an intensive or frequentative effect.","Medical acronym for the treatment of certain leg and foot injuries.","For example, some people are heavy users of Emojis in their text conversations.","Never use this, just try to be kind and understanding.","Big Hat No Cattle.","MOOCs could also easily become very significant in teaching very young people.","To end, to terminate, to finish off.","Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.","Where DRM is restrictive and greedy, so knowledge and human advancement are suppressed.","Detect Opera desktop modes.","Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation.","Here is the array reversed.","Age, Build, Clothes, Distinguishing marks, Elevation, Face, Gait, Hair, Sex.","The Greeks would refer to the god of the sea as Poseidon, where the Romans would call him Neptune.","Brakes, Undercarriage, Mixture, Fuel, Flaps, Pitch, Instruments, Carb heat, Hatches, Harnesses.","RISE method offers a clear, flexible and integrative framework for transformational change.","Bay Area with more packages.","This is very important in helping you know what to expect.","The head of a penis.","The lesson is to seek clarification whenever you see the acronym used, because it could mean just about anything.","As a result, most of the letters are used.","An unexpected error has occurred with your sign up.","What does K stand for?","Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats.","These mainly occur in academic titles.","Widows were denied normal pensions and rights, and many were ostracized by their communities.","Not true of course, but then none of this stuff is.","The lesson of DFI teaches us the importance of good quality planning, consistent project management and communications, towards a properly considered aim.","Perhaps fewer modern marriages would fail if more people tried this sort of arrangement.","Sequence data is expressed with small letters only.","Behaviour that can be exhibited by a group when stressed, demotivated or unhappy with their situation.","GOAT acronym interpretations: decide what you want to be great at and then organise your plans accordingly.","It actually references to an uncertain amount of time.","Fall Down Go Boom.","Every Landing Always Late.","NASA actually stands for?","Please cancel your print and try again.","The HCM term has arisen in recent years, as new buzzwords and abbreviations tend to, when sufficient people embrace the idea that a new approach is warranted or opportune, in which case a new brand or packaging usually happens.","Another poignant demographics acronym.","LBO, Comps and Excel Modeling.","Presumably something to do with bicycles and trampolining.","If you doodle on a napkin or take a photo or write a poem this is all automatically your intellectual property.","Feck Off and Find Out.","Key Lines Of Enquiry.","POMO is a very powerful concept.","Stool that has a uncharacteristically foul odor may be caused by infections such as giardiasis or medical conditions.","Note that when points are used after the initials there is no space between the first point and the next initial.","Going the Extra Mile.","However, there are very few abbreviations whose form has been standardised internationally.","President of the United States.","Sexual Intercourse At Midnight.","This habit will help you to avoid misunderstandings as well as encourage others to be more expedient in their reply times, too.","The color of stool with blood in it may range from black, red, maroon, green yellow, gray, or white, and may be tarry, or sticky.","Many people choose RSS as the way to keep up with the latest blog posts from their favorite blogs, via a feed reader.","This appendix identifies the information we recommend that you include in your cover letter to ensure efficient review of your submission.","And yet many still fail to remember even these fundamental steps.","Initialise the JS for the modal window which displays the policy versions.","How is this implemented in excel?","Separate names with a comma.","This guidance recommends a format that will help you comply with these requirements.","Introducing Just In Time methods without creating the required efficiencies and reliabilities beforehand is not a viable change.","Queer And Nervous Try Another Service.","If you conducted animal testing, we recommend that you describe the tests and provide the results that support the performance characteristics of your device.","Does the Victoria Line pass underneath Downing Street?","Bacronyms are often created as hoax explanations for the origins of certain swear words.","But the reality is that the Bible has been translated several times, and its original language is actually lost.","Master of Business Administration.","In this case, users post a song or two that will get your week off to a better start.","Give me a couple hours.","Talk with your printer if you think you will want to print with white ink.","Finished, worn out, unable to function, completely broken.","Department of Health and Human Services.","The expressions reflect social change and also changing attitudes to certain lifestyles and values.","Moz is giving away free SEO for a year!","Benefits, Risks, Alternatives, Nothing.","By putting so much attention on text, we naturally have to place our energies there as well.","This is what actually happened.","What does He is dealt a massive loss mean?","Famous marketing analysis headings acronym, and actually a very useful framework for interpreting and explaining business situations.","American broadcast television and radio stations west of the Mississippi river.","Contributors of these acronyms are acknowledged in the detailed entries in the main acronyms section.","Naval acronym, suitably toned down because the original meaning is too rich for this page.","Thwarted, prevented from succeeding at a task.","Regrettably there is no easy polite alternative to the F Off term.","Set a data attribute on document.","Symbolic Instruction Code, is a very simple programming language.","Balling yet, which is a pity.","Known as the corrective action loop.","The acronym term has grown to be used as a word referring to a type of young delinquent person associated with public nuisance offences and a recipient of the order.","You took the time to type out those additional two letters, and that counts for something.","HCM title might bertter emphasise the difference or change you are aiming to achieve.","DIF Analysis has roots in military training, where traditionally training and development tended to be oriented according to task effectiveness and organizational efficiency, rather than driven by individual personal development needs.","Get Out of My Emergency Room.","Tired, worn out, exhausted.","Every organization has a person who seems to be perpetually in FIAT mode.","The stakes are being raised.","They prefer standard abbreviations for common terms in street addresses.","Not A Lot Going On.","Any State so invited may become a Party to the Treaty by depositing its instrument of accession with the Government of the United States of America.","The words are Street, Avenue, Road, Drive, Lane, Terrace, Place, Boulevard, Court, Circle, Apartment, Route, Highway, Parkway, Turnpike, Rural Route, School, Island, Library, Hospital, Mount, Lake, North, South, East, West, Northeast, Northwest, Southeast, Southwest.","In case of an unavoidable break at end of line, use hyphen.","Japanese quality and service development model.","In Case of Emergency.","It is intended for use by veterinary students, researchers, practitioners, and librarians.","You might have heard the term acronym used before, but wondered what exactly they are.","Deviate from it at your peril.","Adismissive term said when you want an annoying person to buzz off.","What is the difference between i was sweating like crazy.","Arab folk myths, is available on Amazon.","Acronym used by UK armed forces and services staff for identifying people involved in incidents or crime.","Two lines, made irresistible to the reader.","The request timed out and you did not successfully sign up.","What a time to be alive!","Random act of Kindness can change lives.","Here in one section are all the lifestyle and demographics profiles acronyms that feature in the dictionary above.","The yacht cost us half a million knicker just as a deposit.","Such patients not infrequently later had an ERCP.","Medical acronym describing cause of injury to hand, wrist, etc.","When texting first came about, receiving a text message containing just this letter might not have meant much to you.","However, the Greeks took this word in a more loose sense and rather meant.","John Stanley is a retail expert, writer and speaker.","Learn about COPD symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment options.","This table is included for future reference.","Get tickets to our next game, hours and locations for our libraries and museums, and information about your next career move.","You are receiving this because you commented.","Had One, Never Did Again.","The University Library is currently resuming services.","Behaviour, Effect, Expectation, Results.","Wolfpack submarines during WWII who used the mixture of German and English words to confuse the allies; it was a traditional greeting between commercial ships; it stems from old unofficial telegraph code; is was an invention of a Swedish naval officer.","For my needs, I have to retype a list of countries with their ISO code.","Sadly in the UK, Bachelor of Science is normally shown as BSc, and Master of Science as MSc, which offer less opportunity for such mischief.","Bunch Of Guys Sitting Around Talking.","An increasingly popular acronym that many people now use to describe a computer or other gadget causing frustration or technical difficulty for the user.","Regents of the University of California.","Tech blogger by the day, keyboard warrior by the night!","Standard and easily understood forms are preferable, and they should be uniform throughout a job.","What about social skills and emotional intelligence?","He had his passport and money stolen when he was at the market, which was a kick in the ass, especially as I had to then pay for everything for the rest of the holiday.","This seems to be a US armed forces acronym from WWII.","You only live once!","Send me a PM!","The process of innovation, any field at all.","British Armed Forces, WWII.","Always Stating The Really Obvious.","Waste Of Money, Brains And Time.","As such be careful how and where you use them.","Failed Under Continuous Testing.","Truthful and Accuracy Statement.","These examples have been automatically selected and may contain sensitive content.","Copy sharable link for this gist.","An abbreviation is pronounced identically to the long form of the word.","National Federation of Licensed Practical Nurses, Inc.","This refers to two people or characters that you feel are meant for each other.","Organizers can eliminate competitors for being late to a checkpoint or who are showing fatigue at their discretion.","Text in Spanish Like a Native!","Acknowledgments to John Oakland.","Did you see the miserable kipper on that idiot stood at the back?","Executive orders, proclamations, etc.","An example for description of the modified base in FEATURES line.","Abbreviations and letter symbols are used to save space and to avoid distracting the reader by use of repetitious words or phrases.","He knocked one out whilst watching old episodes of Baywatch.","Would love your thoughts, please comment.","The routes only clear definitions are the checkpoints often found at mountain summits.","US military in written communications, where it serves as as an immediate emphasis and prefix of the central point of the message or report.","Are typo names almost dead?","Tons of PPL here.","There Is No Alternative.","This list of acronyms and abbreviations is far from complete.","Social, Legal, Economic, Political, Technological.","Get instant explanation for any acronym or abbreviation that hits you anywhere on the web!","In other words, the patient fell over, from Nova Scotia orthopaedics and no doubt used elsewhere.","Apparently, your data includes the states within it however there is no rule that seems to simplify identification and extraction of that information.","Nowadays GAK serves as an incredulous reponse to any unfathomable question.","But today, this text of just one letter can have many meanings.","Little Italian Tradition And Lotsa Italian Attitude.","These subtle nuances are futile in the world of texting.","Chief Has Arrived On Scene.","Management By Objectives and Open Door Management.","See you on the other side!","If html does not have either class, do not show lazy loaded images.","Did not land a summer internship?","Every New Guy Lasts About Ninety Days.","But if Lansing had kept his original name, the company might have been called Martini Speakers.","Nosed Egotistical Rude Teenager.","UK Friday evening TV show.","Oh Shit I Never Thought Of That.","Ubiquitous acronym found in email, chatroom and texting communications.","To make things easier, many of them have been abbreviated.","The world is becoming a lonelier place seemingly.","Do you the xyz aspect.","West Region surety operation in all facets of contract surety including business development, underwriting, marketing, agency management, strategic vision, operations, compliance, and employee development.","Meaning that it has made counting easier.","By suggesting what word to use next, are our phones are subtly guiding our thought?","Technology Without An Interesting Name.","Acronym for extremes and emergencies.","RADAR entered the language as a word in its own right many years ago.","More generally, similar Just In Time principles can be applied to other functions besides manufacturing and stock and materials management; really any activity where cost and resource can be saved by minimizing leeway and contingencies relating to supply deadlines.","Devised and contributed by Janet Disney, thanks.","My opinions are not necessarily my employers.","The first and original demographics acronym?","Forget It and Drive On.","PIN really is just seen as a word, not an acronym.","Peru, Alaska, Costa Rica, one block in Queens, NY, Patagonia, the forests of Tennessee and much more, learning the specs of what it takes to attempt, much less complete them.","The misuse of K for thousand should be discouraged.","Please tell me if you know the origin of this acronym.","Localizing the suffix is a good idea.","This is a term for a product which requires a high amount of thought by the customer before purchase, such as cars, holidays, pension plans, houses, etc.","Best Writing Articles bit.","Although they started out making their delivery trips in a single Plymouth Duster, the company quickly took off, and they named it after their respective last initials.","Sorry, you need to login or sign up in order to vote.","It might be a stretch to say that our phones are affecting our agency when it comes to language, but these devices, without a doubt, do have an odd power over us.","Parse the OS into an object.","It was created by geologist Stjepan Pavicic for this purpose.","Apparently novelist Tom Clancy has used the term in this context.","You can write the way you want to talk, but we need to have some communication about the means in which you are expressing it to avoid communication difficulties and misinterpretations.","In fact not motivation at all.","SE, NW, SSE, etc.","Just Empty Every Pocket.","Texting suddenly becomes more serious and more important.","What, eat it or rub it in?","Mean Time Between Changes of Mind.","Buffer, for instance, uses the Twitter API to schedule and post tweets.","The acronym does not signify a sequential process, but instead the elements contained within it.","Currently Residing In The Where Are They Now File.","Point of maximum impulse of the heart when felt during examination, as in beats against the chest.","If media query matches document.","Too Poor To Be.","There Ought To Be A Law.","Often times, ROI is extended to include a return in clicks, engagement, or new followers based on the time and resources devoted to a social network.","Where the party at?","If in doubt ask the IP owner.","Plus, we are likely to add our own perspectives and unconscious biases to the messages we receive as well.","Classify Your Medical Device.","Old Ladies Driving Slowly Making Others Behind Increasingly Late Everyday.","VHF messages to describe an incident or potential incident at sea in which lives are at risk, usually due to the actions of an idiot in charge of a small sailboat getting into difficulty or causing trouble to others.","Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization.","Twitter, Follow Friday lets you share the names of other Twitter users whom you think your followers should follow.","Single Point Of Failure.","State, Province, and freely associated State abbreviations is to be used.","Societatis Philosophiae Americanae Socius, Fellow of the American Philosophical Societys.","The terminology is popular among business executives, marketing folk, politicians and economists.","Nosed Egostical Rude Teenager.","An exclamation of annoyance.","Hope Our Love Lasts And Never Dies.","Bankrupt Unemployed Rejected Person.","Scholars have the entirety of the Old and New Testaments in their original writings, and translations have been meticulously created and compared to each other and the original Hebrew and Aramaic of the Old Testament and Greek of the New Testament.","If not then it should be.","Used as a term of endearment for someone you care about.","Rebound, as in rebound tenderness of the abdomen when pushed in and then released.","What is the ADA?","Popular instant messaging apps like AOL Instant Messenger predate the more modern social networks like Facebook and Twitter.","What is an acronym?","They are using B for billion.","Showing genuine concern and understanding is vital for empathy.","POME, interpreted as Prisoner Of Mother England.","Errors and Omissions Excepted.","Just Another Flipping Observer.","Credit for the course is earned by examination.","It is an imperfect world.","If the abbreviation you are looking for is not in our list, please let us know and we will be glad to help as well as add it to our list.","And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a THOUSAND years.","Related links provided where appropriate.","While BMX is a very widely recognized abbreviation, its origins and precise meaning are far less well known.","Notify me of new comments via email.","Acknowledgments to Anstey Latimer School, Leicester, England.","We hope you find the information you are looking for and share it with your friends.","The metaphor is universal of course, although there would be certain destinations that could substitute and fit perfectly: Turkey, Tangiers, Australia, Alaska, etc.","We read by moving our eyes from right to left across a line of letters which are broken up into groups called words.","Thank you for updating your details.","Learn the strategies and tactics to take your social media marketing to new heights.","Various uses at work and play.","How and When to Use Acronyms in Writing?","CPT refers to the cost of reaching each thousand people of the target audience with the advertising message.","An act of masturbation.","Government efforts to control inflation must be successful if the United States is to have a stable economy.","Please enter your first name.","Olympic Committee, the only adventure race to do so.","Not the most optimistic diagnosis.","An unclassified device is a legally marketed preamendments device for which a classification regulation has yet to be finalized and for which a PMA is not required.","MMM as the abbreviation for billion.","Export to the global object.","The lesson for business development and marketing people is that nobody saw a remote possibility for such a vast industry when the technology was first devised and made available.","People exhibiting IKIWISI behaviour generally need help to try thinking a little about aims and outcomes.","Acknowledgements are too numerous to mention.","So that we can make more Improvements in our Writing Skill.","Problem, Rectification, Investigation, Correction.","This is Spinal Tap.","Some considerable time into the meeting it was discovered that half of the participants thought they were there to discuss the European Monetary Union, while the other half were thinking about Environmental Monitoring and Utilisation.","Safety Is No Accident.","On the other side of receiving ks is, of course, sending them.","Ta Ta For Now.","No definitive list of standard abbreviations exists therefore it is important to understand the context in which they have been used in.","All Mouth And Trousers.","Apparently originated in the Seal Cove fishing community on Grand Manan Island in the Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick.","Either way, the QUANGO acronym is now firmly established as a word in its own right.","Polite version of motivational expression used in the Royal Navy.","We sometimes have to code switch and use context to determine what the author is telling us.","Think of your computer expressing bytes of memory as kilobyte, megabyte or gigabyte.","They are a bit of fun and no offence is intended.","How is an acronym defined?","And they can only be as amazing as senior leadership allows them to be.","Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.","If you owned this domain, contact your domain registration service provider for further assistance.","ICYMI, the Buckeyes won the national championship!","No title or authority is required.","The expression has also been applied to people themselves.","Remember, never text when driving.","So maybe you know M means Millions and K Means Thousand.","Again, not really a business acronym, but interesting.","Google Analytics and web traffic tracking, pageviews refers to the number of times a user visits a webpage.","As with many labels, differences between HRM and HCM largely depend on your own situation and interpretation.","You will get everything you want in life if you help other people get what they want.","Systeme Electronique Couleur Avec Memoire.","That is why it takes so many possible mistakes and resolves a PRESUMABLY accurate name from them.","Note the lack of spaces on either side of the ampersand.","Many had previously distinguished themselves for many months or years in the most savage conditions ever experienced in warfare.","Does the device contain components derived from a tissue or other biologic source?","They help you determine how well your campaigns and strategies are performing.","So something is wrong and people wring their hands and wonder why.","For those BOHOF moments.","Luggage In Another Terminal.","The Six Sigma process improvement model, used by Six Sigma project teams, as defined by Motorola Inc.","PRojects In Controlled Environments.","Class III Summary and Certification.","This abbreviation signifies both something embarrassing and something with which the user might disagree.","Technically fuller version of PEARL above, used by nurses and doctors on patients notes.","Maximum Impact, Little Effort.","This is a specific order not to revive a patient artificially if they succumb to illness.","Please enter a valid email address.","Please note that the criterion for entry into the main list is that it must be an abbreviation, shortening or synonym which is at most three letter and occurs with relative frequency in any of the major British cryptics.","To reject someone or their suggestions.","Incidentally the conventional version Doctor of Philosophy is from the literal Latin origin Philosophiae Doctor.","Again, one of those acronyms whose origins are not widely known.","French, Italian, German, Spanish.","At the beginning of a legend, the word gure preceding the legend number is not abbreviated.","The two main elements of SEM are paid advertising and search engine optimization.","Is the device intended for single use?","CDC twenty four seven.","Low Decision Latitude refers to lack or loss of personal control and choice in the way a job is done.","In management, and in the military, senior people rely on junior people to take care of the detail and to provide the strategic interpretation by which big decisions can be made.","Most were informed of their fate a few hours before the execution, even though the decision to carry out their sentence had been made some days or weeks prior, thus appeals were effectively prevented.","Position Of Maximum Opportunity.","County, Fort, Mount, Point, and Port are not abbreviated.","One of the oldest forms of human competition is the race.","Opinions expressed are mine and not necessarily that of my employer.","As a substitute teacher, passed them out by the thousands.","De Novo classification process.","Party one year after its notice of denunciation has been given to the Government of the United States of America, which will inform the Governments of the other Parties of the deposit of each notice of denunciation.","FLOTUS means something else as well?","What does this sideways triangular marking mean?","If you are one of TPTB ask yourself why people refer to you as this and how you might become more like a human being.","Here is a function that you can pass in the state name, and get the abbreviation back.","Got questions or feedback?","This article is free for everyone, thanks to Medium Members.","What are the benefits and risks from a particular course of action or option or default?","The clouds boil and roll across the canopy below and the air around you is thin enough to double the effort required to move.","Despite what we might read about the worsening standards of education, young people are very sharp indeed.","Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time.","Near, Book Usual Room, Grand Hotel.","Instead: sit down, think, write down some ideas or aims, and then you will get good results.","Association Against Acronym Abuse.","But if your colleague has an MBA in marketing or finance, you may want to make your own concentration in business administration explicit.","That the subject matter of the film is US military and flying perhaps provides indication as to the true origins of the term.","This section aims to provide a reference list of abbreviations and acronyms that are frequently used within oncology.","Incidentally Diamond resigned from his post as CEO the day before appearing in front of the committee.","Learn about life as a diabetic.","Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.","Other countries either did not shoot their own soldiers, or have long since issued full pardons, and in many cases have commemorated the victims.","This is the page you see when you perform a search.","Like many industries, the retirement profession is acronym and abbreviation crazy.","Talk to you later!","Various applications, most obviously referring to sexual readiness.","Transfer of Undertakings for Protection of Employment.","As in taking a medicine every other day.","Here, K indicates genuine enthusiasm in accepting the offer.","Classification Of Residential Neighbourhoods.","This is such a brilliant simple teaching and learning model.","Together Everyone Achieves More.","It is important that you understand that the letter in drug resistance refers to different amino acids.","Pupils Equal And Reacting To Light.","International Atomic Energy Agencyibid.","General term of abuse.","Another wonderful demographics acronym.","And what he means?","Question: Are all FMCGs LIPs as well?","Total Control Under Pressure.","Generational transfer of knowledge and help has always been significant in human evolution.","Go here to link your subscription.","Focus on positive response rather than blame.","At least not in response to a harmless message.","To wear out, to exhaust, to ruin.","Only one content open at any given time.","Initialisms can be but are not always acronyms.","American Rhyming Slang Expressions?","Originally an engineering abbreviation, which is actually applicable to all project work and delegated tasks, from the perspective of the delegate, or person expected to carry out the work.","Harvard community to turn research and creativity into global action.","Does the device contain a drug?","Replaces all spaces with hyphens.","There is some truth to this rather rude maxim, in that highly persuasive people can often dominate highly intelligent people, if only by force of argument, or by securing the support of easily influenced associates and bystanders.","Waste Of Flipping Time And Money.","What does BOFFO stand for?","When talking about money, the letter K after a number denotes thousands.","We all know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road.","Dyslexia, which is widely misunderstood.","Poxy Engine, Useless Gearbox, Every One Trouble.","The internet offers unprecedented opportunities for sharing knowledge and extending access to created works of all sorts, whereas many IP owners and exploiters have an entirely different priority, namely profit.","Fast Moving Consumer Goods.","Is there a better way to do this?","Pride, Integrity and Guts.","Look closely at the word choice and consider what the true definition of a word signals or what the word choice most logically indicates.","Click on a letter to see the abbreviations beginning with that letter.","What can I say?","As our devices grow smarter.","Stay At Home Stay Alive.","Only the email generation could have developed the need for such an acronym.","See NTD and PLU.","Beliefs, Evidence, Needs, Desires, Wounds, Interests, Mentors, Proud of.","It is not unusual for IPOs to fail to attract buyers for all the stock available, in which case the bank underwriting the offering is left with the stock.","The meeting kicked off with a welcoming speech by the Managing Director.","Brute Force and Ignorance.","Age, Site, Depth, Area.","Technique alone is not enough.","Marginally more polite version than the common form."]