The firm's homegrown, flagship product is Flexcube, an acronym for flexible and comprehensive universal banking environment.
But for our purposes, LSD is just an acronym for a plain old boring lump-sum distribution.
The hero's name is an acronym of his task: Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class, thus WALL-E.
His running mate, played by Bernie Mac, thinks NATO is a person and not an acronym.
In Qatar, a few young comics have come together to form SUCQ (an acronym for Stand Up Comedy Qatar).
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If an acronym flies out of your mouth before you can stop it, spell it out, and move on.
YOLO, an acronym of the phrase "you only live once" made both editions.
The name, an acronym of the founding members'names, ironically means "God" in Sanskrit.
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My rule of thumb is that an acronym should appear at least three times in one page to be justified.
Though that string of words may sound like an awkward stretch to find an acronym, the book remains in print.
Research firm Parks Associates says 69% of U.S. smartphone users know little about LTE, an acronym for Long Term Evolution.
Even when they can't coin an acronym, legislators use loaded language that raises the stakes for voting no, he says.
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However, unless a phrase appears repeatedly in written text, an acronym is usually more confusing to a reader than spelling it out.
"A UAV doesn't have a mom, " a retired military officer told me, using an acronym for an unmanned aerial vehicle, or drone.
Gartner, the research and consulting firm, has gone so far as to anoint this emerging space with an acronym, IPAM (intellectual property asset management).
The steel magnate expects future demand in the steel industry to be driven by the "BRIC" countries--an acronym for Brazil, Russia, India and China.
Activists said the TEA Party Day -- an acronym for "Taxed Enough Already" -- was in response to what they called runaway government spending.
Just in case GPS and GLONASS didn't make for enough of an acronym soup, BAE Systems wants to add one more to the navigation broth.
Syriza is an acronym signifying "Coalition of the Radical Left".
Although it has given rise to jokes about cows and an outfielder for the 1986 New York Mets, MOOC is actually an acronym for Massive Open Online Courses.
Neemo is an acronym for Nasa Extreme Environment Mission Operations.
Although acronyms get in the way of clear communication, even my best marketers have the urge to turn every project, every product, and every position into an acronym.
PGP, an acronym for Pretty Good Privacy, was originally created as a free tool by Philip Zimmermann in the early nineties to allow for private email correspondences and bulletin-board service postings.
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They like to slap it on anybody they think is extreme or out of touch, usually on social issues, which is the irony because the Tea Party started because Tea stands for taxed enough already as an acronym.
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Called ARGUS-IS (both named after the mythological eye guy and an acronym for Autonomous Real-time Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance - Imaging System) this guy straps a 1.8 gigapixel camera to the bottom of an A-160T Hummingbird robot helicopter.
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Goldman's view of the world seems dominated by its faith in the emerging economies, notably the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China), an acronym coined by Jim O'Neill, a strategist who has been promoted to head its asset-management division.
It's just IHOP, an acronym that throws its pancake heritage on to the ash heap of pancakery just so we can throw down to tilapia hollandaise in a place that's not exclusively a house of carbohydrate gorging of global proportions.
Alex (his name supposedly an acronym for Avian Learning Experiment) eventually learned the names of about 50 objects, knew the numerals from one to six, could perform simple addition and used categories such as similarity and difference, shape, colour and material.
However, ownership of business among OBC's - an acronym for Other Backward Castes or the "middle castes" who "neither suffering the extreme social and economic discrimination of the Scheduled Castes, nor enjoying the social privileges of the upper castes" - has grown.
Mr Evans's excellent book is marred only by the occasional editing error (ORAF, the Organisation of the French Algerian Resistance, exists only as an acronym, and Mr Evans, when talking of the founding members of the European Economic Community, omits the Netherlands).
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