PL
Public Law.
PL
1 American
pl.
2
American
abbreviation
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place.
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plate.
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plural.
P/L
3
American
P.L.
4
American
abbreviation
pl
1
British
abbreviation
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place
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plate
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plural
PL
2
British
abbreviation
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plural
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Poland (international car registration)
Pl.
3
British
abbreviation
pl
4
British
abbreviation
Example Sentences
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"Anyone with a large family knows. Everything works out in the end," said Carlos Portinho, leader of the PL caucus in the Senate.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
Tom in Nottingham: Nottingham Forest were promoted after 23 years away from the PL with absolutely nothing from the parachute payment pot.
From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2023
PL: It felt like it was the time to say, “No, I’m not going to let you get away with simply infringing on everything we do.”
From The Verge ● Mar. 1, 2022
Sources in the PL party told Reuters that the vice presidential candidate on a Bolsonaro ticket could come from the PP party.
From Reuters ● Nov. 8, 2021
PL Many Remarkable Passages ... concerning the Battell on Sunday, the 23rd of October, 1642, with fearful observations upon the Dead Corpses, &c., by T. Talbott.
From Edge Hill The Battle and Battlefield by Edwin Walford
Five minutes later, Rios texted Butts: “Park ur car on 78th pl. Leave the car keys only with the $. Right now do that please”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2023
Sheep, shēp, n.sing. and pl. the well-known ruminant mammal covered with wool: leather made from sheep-skin: a silly and timid fellow.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Suit′ing, cloth suitable for making suits of clothes, usually in pl.;
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
They, thā, pers. pron., pl. of he, she, or it.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Spous′al, pertaining to a spouse, or to marriage: nuptial: matrimonial.—n. usually in pl. nuptials: marriage.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
This work includes researching prospective companies, investigating their P/L sheets, understanding what they make and how they make it, and figuring out what the likelihood of future profitability will be.
From New York Times ● May 23, 2016
These include the theater’s posh director Meredith Potter; Stella’s bumbling surrogate father, Uncle Vernon; and the heartthrob P.L.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
The framework of “Mary Poppins” did not exist until the Shermans got their hands on P.L.
From New York Times ● May 25, 2024
The American, who was identified in court papers only by his initials P.L., is described as someone who ditched probation in Arkansas in the 1990s and remains a fugitive.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 8, 2021
These less appealing attributes are true to the literary Mary Poppins, as author P.L.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 2018
See Life, § 57, and Lanfranc's letter to Donnell in Ussher, 495; P.L. cl.
From St. Bernard of Clairvaux's Life of St. Malachy of Armagh by Hugh Jackson Lawlor
Just bad luck and poor refereeing every game has cost them their pl status.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2013
Lili pl from La Jolla, Calif., wrote that T.S.A. officers had taken her sunglasses and but had not returned them.
From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2010
They brought Stephanopoulos' total support in the 300-man Parliament to a slender majority ,pl 152.
From Time Magazine Archive
But for most, subtle and highly persuasive pressures are at work, primarily choice job assignments after graduation that can be allotted in part according to a Komsomol pl record.
From Time Magazine Archive
A settled good will; kind feeling; love; zealous or tender attachment; Ð often in the pl.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
I was coming up Waverly Pl. from 6th Ave. approaching Christopher St. when I saw the police car lights flashing.
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2017
Coking and her husband bought the white, three-story house at 127 Columbia Pl. in 1961, long before the area was transformed by mega-casinos.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 9, 2015
Could it be that 3324 Dent Pl. contains artifacts, architecture and a body, as Johnston suggests?
From Washington Post ● Feb. 13, 2015
She pulled up 72 Irving Pl. on her database.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 13, 2010
I took a large cristal baloon, A, Pl. iv. fig.
From Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries by Antoine Lavoisier
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