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Thesaurus article:to be the abbreviation for something

to be the abbreviation for something

You can say that a group of lettersis the/an abbreviation forsomething.

DST is the abbreviation for daylight saving time.

You can also say that a group of lettersstands forsomething oris short forsomething.

GPS stands for "Global Positioning System".
Jo is short for Josephine.

You can also say that a word or phraseis abbreviated tosomething oris shortened tosomething. These two uses are less common.

The word "immunoglobulin" is often abbreviated to "Ig".
The word "propeller" is often shortened to "prop".

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