resp.
Americanabbreviation
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respective.
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respectively.
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respelled; respelling.
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respondent.
Example Sentences
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In a newspaper in Chicago, where the heavyweight champ's wife has sued for divorce, appeared the following ad: "Not resp. for debts cont. by anyone but myself, Joe Louis Barrow, 550 E. 61st St."
From Time Magazine Archive
Before g the vowel u resp. w is inserted: 145 browght—nowght.
From Torrent of Portyngale by Unknown
Muscular contractions, as induced by strong faradic currents, are to be dreaded in direct proportion to the acuteness of the inflammation, resp. the sensitiveness of the inflamed tissues.
From The Electric Bath by Schweig, George M.
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