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    QP
    queen's pawn.
  • q.p.
    q.p.
    abbreviation
    (in prescriptions) as much as you please.

QP

1 American  
Chess.
  1. queen's pawn.


q.p. 2 American  
Or q. pl.

abbreviation

  1. (in prescriptions) as much as you please.


QP British  

symbol

  1. queen's pawn

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of q.p.

From Latin quantum placet


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The manufacturing licences of QP Pharmachem Ltd and two other companies, whose products were linked to the child deaths - Maiden Pharmaceuticals and Marion Biotech Pvt.

From Reuters ● Jul. 25, 2023

The WHO said that the tested samples of Guaifenesin TG syrup, made by Punjab-based QP Pharmachem Ltd, showed "unacceptable amounts of diethylene glycol and ethylene glycol".

From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2023

For gas phase equilibria, the pressure-based reaction quotient, QP, is used.

From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019

This idea of traditional creative collaboration is the drive behind the next Struthers watch, which is due for official release at the Salon QP watch fair in London in November.

From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2014

By exchanging Bishops White would render the Black QP "backward," and on the open file its capture would be inevitable.

From Chess Strategy by J. Du Mont

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