pp

¹

abbreviation for

, Radio.

1. push-pull.

PP

²

abbreviation for

1. prepositional phrase.

pp.

³

abbreviation for

1. pages.
2. past participle.
3. pianissimo.
4. privately printed.

p.p.

⁴

abbreviation for

1. parcel post.
2. past participle.
3. per person.
4. postpaid.

P.P.

⁵

abbreviation for

1. parcel post.
2. parish priest.
3. past participle.
4. postpaid.
5. prepaid.

PP

¹

abbreviation for

1. Parish Priest
2. past President

pp

²

abbreviation for

1. past participle
2. (in formal correspondence) per pro
3. privately printed

symbol for

1. music pianissimo: an instruction to play very quietly

pp

³

abbreviation for

1. parcel post
2. prepaid
3. post-paid
4. (in prescriptions) post prandium

pp.

⁴

abbreviation for

1. pages

Usage

In formal correspondence, when Brenda Smith is signing on behalf of Peter Jones, she should write Peter Jones pp (or per pro ) Brenda Smith, not the other way about

Word History and Origins

Origin of pp¹

(sense 2) Latin per procurationem: by delegation to

Origin of pp²

Latin: after a meal

Example Sentences

But what does 18-year-old Bethany Mota who still lives at home with her parents (two-page spread, People, pp. 196-7) do?

From The Daily Beast

PP: We have accomplished so much since we started so it is hard to say where we will be in five years!

From The Daily Beast

PP: Before Target approached us, we knew we would want to collaborate with them.

From The Daily Beast

Happiness Like Water, by Chinelo Okparanta; 208 pp., Mariner Books, $15.

From The Daily Beast

[XVIII, 2941, pp. 164–5; typewritten with handwritten postscript] Koestler replied on March 23.

From The Daily Beast

So it commands the other sciences in all the wonderful and hidden things of nature and art (pp. 510-511).

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Furnivall, pp. 33-35; he says it is 'frised or perled cloothe of gold,' or 'a weued clothe of gold.'

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Some mending of the text is absolutely necessary, because shette is altogether a false form; the pp.

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It is not grammatical; grammar would require that has (not is, as in l. 479) should be understood before the pp.

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Prodromus systematis mammalium et avium additis terminis zoographicis utriuque classis, pp.

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