PPE
Saypee-pee-EEUS/ˌpi pi ˈi/UK/ˌpiː piː ˈiː/
- 1Initialism of personal protective equipment. It means the gear, like gloves and masks, that keeps people safe at work.
Nurses put on their PPE before entering the ward.
The factory makes everyone wear PPE on the production floor.
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- 2Initialism of philosophy, politics, and economics: a university degree program in Britain. Use it for the subject someone studied.
She read PPE at Oxford before going into politics.
He applied to study PPE at a top British university.
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- 3Initialism of property, plant, and equipment: the physical things a company owns and uses to run its business.
The company listed its PPE near the top of the balance sheet.
Buying new machines added a lot to the firm's PPE this year.
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- 4Initialism of PCBoard programming executable: a small program that added new features to an old online message system.
The sysop installed a PPE that let users play a card game on the board.
He wrote a PPE to show a colorful welcome screen when people logged in.
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