VP
verb phrase.
VP
1 American-
verb phrase.
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Also vp, v-p vice president.
v.p.
2
American
abbreviation
V.P.
3
American
Or
V. Pres.
abbreviation
VP
British
abbreviation
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Vice President
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verb phrase
Etymology
Origin of v.p.
From New Latin verbum passīvum
Example Sentences
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Home Depot Chief Executive Ted Decker will take a temporary medical leave, and the company is elevating its finance chief and a senior VP to manage the company in the interim.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Counterpoint's VP of research Neil Shah expects a "constrained supply situation" to last for as long as two years.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
“You’re extremely unlikely to make money,” Alex Michalka, Wealthfront’s VP of investment research, said of day trading.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026
We’ve all seen it — the VP who never leaves, the promotion that takes too long.
From MarketWatch ● May 7, 2026
The company’s marketing manager, Rajesh Rao, told me that he had just made a cold call to the VP for engineering of a U.S. company, trying to drum up business.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
Schell's promotion was one a of a number of executives moves announced, including the departure of 20-year veteran John Kosner, executive v.p. digital and print media.
From Reuters ● Jun. 16, 2017
In addition, Burke Magnus, executive v.p., programming and scheduling, will also oversee BamTech, in which Disney took a $1 billion minority stake last August.
From Reuters ● Jun. 16, 2017
“This opens up the opportunity for Oman to use its natural gas for higher-value applications, to diversify its economy and create more jobs,” says John O’Donnell, v.p. of GlassPoint, in an interview today.
From Forbes ● Jul. 8, 2015
An advertising expert who has also taught marketing at the University of Chicago, Peterson was a vice president of McCann-Erickson by 27, moved to Bell & Howell as executive v.p. in 1958.
From Time Magazine Archive
O'Donovan, with his usual conscientious accuracy, has given a long and most interesting note on the subject of this massacre, in the Annals of the Four Masters, vol. v.p.
From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Mary Frances Cusack
Would his affable V.P. of communications be dining out on me?
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2023
“In four years, I never was embarrassed, and I don’t think any other V.P. can make that statement.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 19, 2021
“But the ambition here is not just V.P. Even if Biden doesn’t win, she’s not going to be out of the national picture.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2020
It has been that long since a man chose a woman to run as V.P. on the Democratic ticket.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 8, 2020
They all posed side by side—the company V.P., the mayor, Mother Paula, Councilman Grandy, and the boss of the chamber of commerce—for the television crew and the news photographer.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
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