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FYI

phrase
ef-wy-Y/ˌɛfwaɪˈaɪ/

1 meaning of FYI

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    phraseinitialism
    Initialism of for your information.

    FYI, the parking lot will be closed all weekend for repairs.

    He forwarded the report with a brief FYI for the rest of the team.

    Note

    An initialism that works as two parts of speech. Opening a sentence, it is an adverbial set off by a comma; with an article it becomes a noun: an FYI, too many FYIs. Life photographer John Phillips used it in a 1948 cable postscript quoted by Time. Spelled out, for your information has a sharper colloquial life, introducing a rebuttal or a sarcastic reminder of what the listener should already know.

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