RSVPs

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of RSVP.

   The wedding planner sorted the RSVPs into attending and declining piles.

   Late RSVPs threw off the caterer's headcount entirely.

   Note

   A plural that serves two different nouns. Usually it means the replies guests send back, but the same letters also stand for rapid serial visual presentation, and that initialism takes the same plural. The ending is a plain lowercase -s with no apostrophe: a host counts RSVPs, not RSVP's, and the capitals stay as they are.

2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present indicative of RSVP.

   Whenever the office throws a party, she RSVPs before anyone else.

   He rarely RSVPs to formal events until the very last day.

   Note

   The verb form is spelled exactly like the plural noun, and only the sentence tells them apart: she RSVPs, but the RSVPs arrived. The verb is intransitive, so the event comes after to (he RSVPs to the gala) instead of standing as a direct object. The same form also covers reserving a place, not just answering an invitation.

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