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GP – Gross Profit. GPO – Group purchasing organization. GRN – Goods Receipt Note. GRNI – Goods Receipt Not Invoiced. GSV – Gross Sales Value. GVC – Global value chain. GMROII – Gross Margin Return on Inventory Investment. G&A – General and Administration expense. expenditures related to the day-to-day operations of a business.
Avoid making up new abbreviations, especially acronyms. For example, "International Feline Federation" is good as a translation of Fédération Internationale Féline, but neither the anglicisation nor the reduction IFF is used by the organisation; use the original name and its official abbreviation, FIFe.
acronym noun. ac·ro·nym | \ˈa-krə-ˌnim\. Definition of acronym. : a word (such as NATO, radar, or laser) formed from the initial letter or letters of each of the successive parts or major parts of a compound term. also : an abbreviation (such as FBI) formed from initial letters : initialism. ^ "Acronym".
1. as a name misapplied by gardeners. 2. as an invalid name derived from horticultural writings of confused authorship. husk. Protective outer covering of certain seeds, for example, the leafy outer covering of an ear of maize (corn), the leathery covering of the walnut, or the spiky covering of the chestnut.
Doctor (title) Former Vassar College president Catharine Bond Hill wearing doctoral robes. She has a doctorate and can carry the title of "Doctor". Doctor is an academic title that originates from the Latin word of the same spelling and meaning. [1] The word is originally an agentive noun of the Latin verb docēre [dɔˈkeːrɛ] 'to teach'.
Lists of post-nominal letters. Post-nominal letters are letters placed after the name of a person to indicate that the individual holds a position, office, or honour. An individual may use several different sets of post-nominal letters. Honours are listed first in descending order of precedence, followed by degrees and memberships of learned ...
An abbreviation (from Latin brevis, meaning "short" [1]) is a shortened form of a word or phrase, by any method including shortening, contraction, initialism (which includes acronym) or crasis . An abbreviation may be a shortened form of a word with a trailing period.
In the English language, an honorific is a form of address conveying esteem, courtesy or respect. These can be titles prefixing a person's name, e.g.: Mr, Mrs, Miss, Ms, Mx, Sir, Dame, Dr, Cllr, Lady, or Lord, or other titles or positions that can appear as a form of address without the person's name, as in Mr President, General, Captain, Father, Doctor, or Earl.