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DP
1abbreviation for
- Movies. director of photography ( def ).
- displaced person ( def ). Also D.P.
- Baseball. double play ( def ).
D/P
2- documents against payment.
d.p.
3abbreviation for
- (in prescriptions) with a proper direction.
D.P.
4abbreviation for
- data processing.
- displaced person.
DP
1abbreviation for
- data processing
- displaced person
- (in South Africa) Democratic Party
D/P
2abbreviation for
- documents against presentation
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Word History and Origins
Origin of DP1
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Example Sentences
I was very fortunate that the actors, DP, and set designer I had were top-level.
“We had three people in our crew—myself, producer Zak Piper, and our DP, Dana Kupper,” says James.
[Director] Nic Roeg, [DP] Tony Richmond, Julie Christie and me.
To this day, my mother can recite the Hebrew poetry of Bialik, which she learned in the DP camps of postwar Germany.
But he had never heard of a petition for a DP being refused.
All of class Dp recognise class Dp2 (though of another generation) as brothers and sisters.
Dp recognises as father or mother all members of classes A and B; similarly Cp, etc.
Now suppose dp imposed without change of volume, and dT to be the resulting temperature change.
This time, they'd harnessed Nedda's restless passion to the task of dissuading him from a DP.
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