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  • D.P.P.
    D.P.P.
    abbreviation
    deferred payment plan.
  • DPP
    DPP
    abbreviation
    Director of Public Prosecutions

D.P.P.

American  

abbreviation

  1. Insurance. deferred payment plan.


DPP British  

abbreviation

  1. Director of Public Prosecutions

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Future bans may become more targeted to punish industries in counties that are D.P.P. strongholds, said Thomas J. Shattuck, an expert on Taiwan at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perry World House.

From New York Times Aug. 12, 2022

The D.P.P. had themselves been dissidents under authoritarianism recently enough.

From New York Times Aug. 4, 2021

“The D.P.P. is trying to navigate a really cautious middle course,” Ming-sho Ho, a professor of sociology at National Taiwan University, explained.

From New York Times Aug. 4, 2021

Says Frank Hsieh, a D.P.P. member and Taipei city councilman: "Our principle is that when martial law is abolished, we should return to a full constitutional system."

From Time Magazine Archive

Its leaders' focus should be directed not to the D.P.P. but to the people in Taiwan.

From Time Magazine Archive

The DPP budget includes up to about $30 billion of weapons procurements from the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 10, 2026

Additional insights are being shared at the APS DPP meeting, and the group intends to publish detailed results in scientific journals in the coming months.

From Science Daily Nov. 20, 2025

But in a letter to the committee, Lord Hermer said he knew about week earlier but had been asked by the DPP not to alert other ministers, including the prime minister.

From BBC Oct. 24, 2025

In June 2014, he married former DPP parliamentarian Gertrude Maseko.

From BBC Sep. 24, 2025

The judge would make up his mind without input from the DPP.

From Underground by Suelette Dreyfus

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