"VSL" meaning in English

See VSL in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} VSL
  1. Ville Saint Laurent (Ville St. Laurent) — a municipality in the province of Quebec, Canada Translations (Ville St. Laurent): VSL (French)
    Sense id: en-VSL-en-name-LlNJdvA2 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with French translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 62 38 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 78 22 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 81 19 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 81 19 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 82 18

Noun

Forms: VSLs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} VSL (countable and uncountable, plural VSLs)
  1. (statistics, economics) Initialism of Value of Statistical Life, a measure of the monetary value of reducing the statistical likelihood of death in a population by a given amount. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: Value of Statistical Life (extra: a measure of the monetary value of reducing the statistical likelihood of death in a population by a given amount) Categories (topical): Economics, Statistics
    Sense id: en-VSL-en-noun-8bUEG0sM Categories (other): English links with redundant wikilinks Topics: economics, mathematics, sciences, statistics

Inflected forms

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