About Acronyms
Acronyms are abbreviations. They are formed by using the initial letters of words. There are different types of acronyms.
Synonyms: initialisms, alphabetisms.
Related terms: backronym, apronym, anacronym, laser acronym, pseudo-acronym.
Workplace Acronyms
A
AD Account Director
ADEC American Distance Education Consortium
AFAIC As Far As I'm Concerned
AIDA Attention, Interest, Desire, Action (sales acronym)
AKA Aso Known As
ALF Always Listen First
AMPS Advanced Mobile Phone Service
ARS Area Ready to Sell (an area in which a product is ready to be sold)
AS Administration Station
ASAP As Soon As Possible
AWOL Absent Without Leave
B
BAB Benefits Are Better
B2B Business to Business
BBS Bulletin Board System
BCC Business Critical Computing
BAS Bibliographic Access Services
BFO Blinding Flash of the Obvious
BI Business Information (Business Intelligence)
BIBOYS Boss Is Back On Your Site (time to close the paper and start work)
BID Break It Down (you should never teach anyone everything at once)
BLT Bacon Lettuce Tomato (the essential sandwich to get through the day)
BMG Branch Managers Group
BMT Before My Time
BOGOFF Buy One Get One For Free (used in marketing)
BOM Business Object Model
BPI Business Process Integration
BPM Business Process Management
BPO Business Process Outsourcing
BRB Be Right Back
BTW By The Way
C
CARE Crap And Really Expensive (=Management Consultants)
CB Call Back
CEO Chief Executive Officer
CEU Customer Evaluation Unit
CFO Chief Financial Officer
CFS Cluster File System
CFS Customer Focused Solutions
CFT Customer Focus Team
CIS Customer Information Services
CLI Command Language Interface (or Calling Line Identifier; or Command Line Interface)
CLL Community Language Learning
CLM Career Limiting Move
COD Cash On Delivery
COPS Computer Oracle and Password System
CRM Customer Relationship Management
CRU Customer Replaceable Unit
CS Customer Service
CSD Customer Service Division
CSF Customer Support Facility
CSG Computer Systems Group
CSI Complex Service Interface
CSM Cluster Storage Management (Disk Storage)
CTO Chief Technical Officer
CTRN Can't Talk Right Now
D
DAG Disability Access Group
DDTF Document Delivery Task Force
DELF Diplôme d'études en langue française
DHTB Don't Have The Bandwidth
DINKY Double Income No Kids Yet
DIRC Digital Instruction Resource Center
DIY Do It Yourself market
DNC Direct Numerical Control
DQYDJ Don't Quit Your Day Job
DRIB Don't Read If Busy
DRM Digital Rights Management
DRT Development Realization Team
DUL Dump Unload and Load
E
EBT Electronic Banking Transfers
EA Ease Advantage
EBITDA Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization
EC Electronic Commerce
EIDE Enhanced Integrated Drive Electronics
EIF Enterprise Information Factory
EITO European Information Technology Observatory (Marketing)
EOD End Of Day
E&OE Errors and Omissions Excepted (used to disclaim any advert: 'whatever we said you cannot sue us if it was wrong)
EOM End of Message
EOT End Of Thread
ETA Expected Time of Arrival
F
FAB Features, Advantages, Benefits
FEAR Forget Everything And Run
FIFO First In First Out
FLK Funny Looking Kid
FMCG Fast Moving Consumer Goods
FOB Free On Board prices (FOB prices include the charges to load the goods on a carrier/vessel; if goods are damaged in transit it is not your responsibility)
FOC Free Of Charge
FSS Financial Services Sector
FUD Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (used in marketing - any competitive industry)
FUG Faculty User Group
FYI For Your Information
G
GDS Global Distribution System
GHR Global Human Resources
GIGO Garbage In Garbage Out (computing phrase)
GIS Global Information Solutions
GMTA Great Minds Think Alike
GPS General Purpose Systems
GROLI Guardian Reader Of Limited Intelligence
H
HATP High Availability Transaction Processing
HIPAA Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (in Employment Law)
H&LS Health and Life Sciences
HoReCa Hotel, Restaurant, Café
HTH Hope This Helps (or Hope That Helps)
HTTP Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol
I
IAM In A Meeting
ICT Information & Communication Technology
IHMB I Hate My Boss
IIP Investors In People
IMHO In My Humble Opinion
IMO In My Opinion
IMPS Implementation Leadership Group
IMTS Improved Mobile Telephone Service
IOP Inter Operability Problems (in Marketing)
ISB Internet Service Bus
ISBN International Standard Book Number (a unique numerical commercial book identifier)
ISCI Industry Standard Commercial Identifier (code conforms to a standard which is used to identify TV commercials)
ISP Integrated Service Point
IT Information Technology
J
JCL Job Control Language
JCTP Joint Committee on Technical Processing
JIT Just In Time (used in Manufacturing)
K
KISS Keep It Simple Stupid
KPI Key Performance Indicator
KRA Key Result Area
L
LACWI Libraries Advisory Committee on Workplace Issues
LC Library Council
LDL Lernen durch Lehren (learning by teaching)
LIFO Last In First Out
LOHAS Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability
LOL Laughing Out Loud
LMO Large Memory Option
LOB Line Of Business
LOBNAH Lights On But Nobody's At Home
LOMBARD Loads of Money But A Right Dipstick
LSA Library Staff Association (or Library Storage Annex)
LTC Local Technology Consultant
LTE Local Technology Expert
M
MBWA Management By Wandering Around
MOTD Message Of The Day
MTFBWY May The Force Be With You
MYOB Mind Your Own Business
N
NERD Networked Electronic Resources Decisions
NIMBY Not In My Back-Yard
NLP Neuro-Linguistic Programming
NP No Problem
NQR Not Quite Right (teaching phrase)
NRN No Reply Necessary
NWR Not Work Related
O
OBI Open Buying on the Internet
OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer
OHP Over-Head Projector
OITF Organizational Issues Task Force
OTP On The Phone
OWL Online with Librarians
P
PA Performance Appraisal (superiors or peers rate your work performance)
P&C Private & Confidential
PEBKAC Problem Exists Between the Keyboard And Chair
PEM Privacy Enhanced Mail
PEST Political, Economic, Social, Technological
PICNIC Problem In Chair Not In Computer
PITA Pain In The Ass
PMFT Performance Measurement Task Force
PSAC Public Services Action Committee
PSCC Public Services Coordinating Committee
PSMG Public Services Management Group
PTT Postal, Telegraph and Telephone
PUASU Put Up and Shut Up (a gentle reminder to moaning staff as to their best course of action)
Q
QQ Quick Question
QUANGO Quasi Autonomous Non-Governmental Organization
R
RFD Request For Discussion
RFL? Ready For Lunch?
RFP Request For Proposal
RISC Reference and Information Services Committee
ROI Return On Investment
RPO Recruitment Process Outsourcing
RTFM Read The Fu**ing Manual
S
SAM Segmented Addressable Market
SAS Serials and Acquisitions Services
SC Steering Committee
SITCOM Single Income Two Children Oppressive Mortgage
SLA Service Level Agreement (also: Second Language Acquisition)
SLAP Sounds Like A Plan
SOHO Small Office, Home Office
SOS Save Our Souls
SMB Small Medium Business
SME Small and Medium Enterprise
SPTF Service Priorities Task Force
STS Systems and Technology Services
SWOT Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats
T
TAG Technology Advisory Group
TBA To Be Announced
TBD To Be Decided
TCE Targeted Customer Environment
TCO Total Cost of Ownership
TE Top End (or Type Enforcement)
TEAM Together Everyone Achieves More
TEC Technical Education Center (or Translational English Corpus)
TLA Three Letter Acronym (every profession is full of, and obsessed with three letter acronyms)
TELL Technology Enhanced Language Learning
TESEO Technologies and Experiments to Support Electronic Commerce (in Electronic Commerce)
TIA Thanks In Advance
TLAR That Looks About Right
TMI Too Much Information
TPR Total Physical Response
TPRS Total Physical Response Storytelling
TSAC Technical Services and Collections
TSF Technical Services Forum
TTYL Talk To You Later
TWAIN Technology Without An Interesting Name
TWIMC To Whom It May Concern
TYLE Teaching Young Learners English (Young Learners can mean under 18 or much younger)
U
UI Under Investigation (or Unique Identifier)
UPI Unique Primary Index (in Marketing)
USI Unique Secondary Index
USP Unique Selling Point
V
VALS Values Attitude and Life Styles
VAR Value Added Reseller
VERA Virtual Electronic Resource Access
VLE Very Large Enterprise
VSB Very Small Business
W
WAG Web Advisory Group
w.e.f. with effect from (updated policy on office work timings; the date that follows is important, e.g. w.e.f. January 15, 2009)
WFH Work From Home
WFM Works For Me
WGST WalMart Global Support Team
WIIFM What's In It For Me? (a question not much appreciated by management)
WIT Works In Theory (but never works in practice)
WMAN Wireless Metropolitan Area Network
WOMBAT Waste Of Money, Brains And Time
WOS Waste of Space (an unaffectionate term for an ineffective staff member)
WPS Worldwide Professional Services
WS Worldwide Services
WSDL Web Services Description Language
WSPC Worldwide Spare Parts Center
WTFP What's The F**king Point (a response to being asked to write, for example, a 200 page document, and you know that no-one is ever going to read it)
WTG Way To Go
WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get
Y
YUPPIE Young Upwardly-mobile Professional
YW You're Welcome
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