BP

¹ American  

1. beautiful people; beautiful person.

2. See B.P..

3. blood pressure.

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bp. ² American  

abbreviation

1. baptized.

2. birthplace.

3. bishop.

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B/P ³ American  

Commerce.

1. bills payable.

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b.p. ⁴ American  

abbreviation

1. Finance. basis point.

2. below proof.

3. Commerce. bills payable.

4. Physics, Chemistry. boiling point.

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B.P. ⁵ American  

abbreviation

1. Bachelor of Pharmacy.

2. Bachelor of Philosophy.

3. Finance. basis point.

4. Archaeology. before (the) present: (in radiocarbon dating) in a specified amount of time or at a specified point in time before a.d. 1950.

   between 2 and 3 million years B.P.;

   human groups living in cities by 5000 B.P.

5. Commerce. bills payable.

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bp ¹ British  

abbreviation

1. (of alcoholic density) below proof

2. boiling point

3. bishop

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BP ² British  

abbreviation

1. blood pressure

2. British Pharmacopoeia

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Example Sentences

"Once you release them, they don't exist," Nick Butler, former head of strategy at BP, told the BBC.

From BBC

For example, producers like Shell and BP keep stocks at terminals and refineries around the UK and can earmark stocks held elsewhere as counting towards their reserves.

From BBC

The five biggest oil companies— Exxon Mobil, Chevron, TotalEnergies, BP, and Shell —are up a little more than 1%, on average, since the war started, notes my colleague Avi Salzman.

From Barron's

The five-year JGB yield is up 0.5 bp at 1.630%.

From The Wall Street Journal

Oil majors face direct disruptions from the war; TotalEnergies has 27% Middle East production exposure, BP 18%, Exxon 16%.

From Barron's