"PPE" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: PPEs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} PPE (countable and uncountable, plural PPEs)
  1. Initialism of personal protective equipment. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: personal protective equipment Categories (topical): Emergency medicine Translations (personal protective equipment): NBE (Basque), EPI [masculine] (Catalan), PBM (Dutch), EPI [masculine] (French), EPI [masculine] (Galician), PSA [masculine] (German), APD (Indonesian), DPI [masculine] (Italian), EPI [masculine] (Portuguese), СИЗ (SIZ) (Russian), EPI [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-PPE-en-noun-XbvYXQ28 Disambiguation of Emergency medicine: 45 4 23 28 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 41 1 27 31 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 32 1 36 31 Disambiguation of 'personal protective equipment': 71 12 8 10
  2. Initialism of property, plant and equipment. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: property, plant and equipment Synonyms: PP&E
    Sense id: en-PPE-en-noun-2Dpm~89C
  3. (UK) Initialism of Philosophy, Politics and Economics, a university degree course. Tags: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: Philosophy (extra: a university degree course), Politics and Economics (extra: a university degree course) Hyponyms: modern greats
    Sense id: en-PPE-en-noun-~8-AFg43 Categories (other): British English, English links with redundant alt parameters, English links with redundant wikilinks, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 32 1 36 31
  4. (computing, historical) Initialism of PCBoard programming executable: a software component used to extend the features of a bulletin board system. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, historical, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: PCBoard programming executable (extra: a software component used to extend the features of a bulletin board system) Categories (topical): Computing, Construction
    Sense id: en-PPE-en-noun-eU7x9peF Disambiguation of Construction: 19 3 30 48 Categories (other): English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 32 1 36 31 Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

Proper name [Spanish]

Head templates: {{head|es|proper nouns|g=m|g2=|g3=|head=}} PPE m, {{es-proper-noun|m}} PPE m
  1. (European politics) Initialism of Partido Popular Europeo (“EPP (European People's Party)”). Tags: European, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, masculine Alternative form of: Partido Popular Europeo (extra: (“EPP (European People's Party)”)) Categories (topical): European politics
    Sense id: en-PPE-es-name-hrfRlydO Categories (other): Spanish entries with incorrect language header, Spanish links with redundant wikilinks Topics: government, politics

Inflected forms

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        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "PPE m",
      "name": "head"
    },
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  "lang": "Spanish",
  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "name",
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        {
          "extra": "(“EPP (European People's Party)”)",
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        }
      ],
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        "Spanish initialisms",
        "Spanish lemmas",
        "Spanish links with redundant wikilinks",
        "Spanish masculine nouns",
        "Spanish proper nouns",
        "es:European politics"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Initialism of Partido Popular Europeo (“EPP (European People's Party)”)."
      ],
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        [
          "Partido Popular Europeo",
          "w:European People's Party"
        ],
        [
          "EPP",
          "EPP"
        ]
      ],
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        "masculine"
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        "politics"
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}

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