ppe
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.77 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
2
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Initialism of philosophy, politics and economics, a university degree course.
British usage; Countable; Uncountable
noun
Initialism of PCBoard programming executable: a software component used to extend the features of a bulletin board system.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Any time you turn on a power tool, use a saw to cut wood, or get on the roof of your house to make a roof repair, PPE can help protect you."
- "The home secretary has said she is sorry if people feel there has been a failure to supply sufficient personal protective equipment (PPE) to NHS staff, as it was revealed that 19 UK health workers had died after contracting coronavirus."
- "In addition, there are basic PPE principles and practices that must be understood to protect the health and safety of everyone involved in handling a pesticide."
- "Having donned our PPE, we walk through the site to the prefab that controls access to the tunnel."
- "With his sights on the astonishingly narrow educational formation of the government and opposition front benches, he says: ‘PPE has a lot to answer for.’"
Usage
- Countable
- Uncountable
- British usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Medicine.
Inflected Forms
Synonyms
PP&E