SVP

Abbreviation.

SVP (plural SVPs)

2. (business) Initialism of senior vice president.

   Synonym: senior vice president

   Hypernym: VP

   Coordinate terms: JVP, EVP, ESVP, SEVP

   • As the SVP of Talent Development and Chief Diversity Officer of L’Oréal, he and his team are working to ensure 50% of the 1,000 key positions around the world at L’Oréal are held by women. (Can we date this quote?) Carriers, L'Oréal homepage
3. (hydroacoustics) Initialism of sound velocity profile.
4. (mathematics) Initialism of shortest vector problem.

• PVS, PVs, VPS, VPs, Vsp.

• S.V.P., S. V. P., svp, s.v.p., s. v. p.

• IPA^(key): /es.ve.pe/ ~ /ɛs.ve.pe/

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SVP

1. initialism of s'il vous plaît (please – lit. if it pleases you) (formal or plural)

• RSVP, R.S.V.P., R. S. V. P., rsvp, r.s.v.p., r. s. v. p.

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SVP f (proper noun, genitive SVP)

1. (Swiss politics) initialism of Schweizerische Volkspartei (“Swiss People's Party”)

   Coordinate terms: SP, FDP, GPS, GLP, EVP, EDU