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  pp

  abbreviation

  push-pull.
• PP
  PP

  abbreviation

  prepositional phrase.
• pp.
  pp.

  abbreviation

  pages.
• p.p.
  p.p.

  abbreviation

  parcel post.
• P.P.
  P.P.

  abbreviation

  parcel post.

pp

¹ American  

abbreviation

Radio.

1. push-pull.

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PP ² American  

abbreviation

1. prepositional phrase.

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pp. ³ American  

abbreviation

1. pages.

2. past participle.

3. pianissimo.

4. privately printed.

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p.p. ⁴ American  

abbreviation

1. parcel post.

2. past participle.

3. per person.

4. postpaid.

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P.P. ⁵ American  

abbreviation

1. parcel post.

2. parish priest.

3. past participle.

4. postpaid.

5. prepaid.

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pp ¹ British  

abbreviation

1. past participle

2. (in formal correspondence) per pro

3. privately printed

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symbol

1. music pianissimo: an instruction to play very quietly

pp ² British  

abbreviation

1. parcel post

2. prepaid

3. post-paid

4. (in prescriptions) post prandium

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PP ³ British  

abbreviation

1. Parish Priest

2. past President

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pp. ⁴ British  

abbreviation

1. pages

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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

Etymology

Origin of pp¹

(sense 2) Latin per procurationem: by delegation to

Origin of pp²

Latin: after a meal

Example Sentences

Dorsal to this, in 6, comes a space lined by somatic mesoblast, and continuous with p.p., the pleuro-peritoneal cavity, or body cavity of the embryo.

From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Germanic *faŋχanan, to seize, catch, beside p.p. gevangen; and similarly hāhen, to hang, p.p. gehangen; pret. brāhte, dāhte, dūhte, beside bringen, to bring, denken, to think, dunken, to seem.

From A Middle High German Primer Third Edition by Wright, Joseph

"It's not p.p.; the match may never come off," muttered Beecher, "and I 'll back old Grog to 'square it' somehow."

From Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Lever, Charles James

The present and preterite passive are expressed by wërden and the p.p., and the corresponding perfect tenses by sīn and the p.p.

From A Middle High German Primer Third Edition by Wright, Joseph

Germanico Dacico p.p. curator alvei Tiberis et riparum et cloacar. urb. praef. aerari Saturni praef. aerari milit. pr. trib. pl. quaestor imp. sevir equitum Romanorum trib. milit. leg. iii.

From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by Middleton, George