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Loose apronyms:
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100% ACCOUNTINGAre Cash Controls Operating Usefully, Need To Investigate Negative Growth Tony McCoy O'Grady
0% AMERICA (3)Acquire Money! Exploit Resources Innovatively! Capital Access! Charles H. Montgomery, Jr.
Places:Countries
100% ASSOCIATEAcquaintance Seen Somewhat Often, Commercial Interests Are The Excuse. Angela Brett
People & Relationships
80% BARCODES"Black-and-white Arrangement" Reading Computers Offer Dealers Enhanced Stocktaking Tony McCoy O'Grady
Science:Electronics
100% BARGAINBuyer Acquired "Resources = Great" Amount Invested Near/Nil! Charles H. Montgomery, Jr.
0% BARGAIN (2)Business Acumen Requires Grasping Accurately Investment Needs/Numerically! Charles H. Montgomery, Jr.
0% BEHIND THE EIGHT BALLBalefully, Everything He'd Invested Never Developed. Then He Erringly Engaged In Gambling; He Then Borrowed Awfully Large Loans. Roger Williams
Assorted Phrases
0% BIG PROFITSBy Increasing Gross Prices, Rip Off From Idiotically Thick Shoppers Tony McCoy O'Grady
100% BILLBig, If Lunchers Linger Tony McCoy O'Grady
Food & Drink
100% BILLEDBought It, Left Loot, Endured Demands Sean Lamb
0% BONUS (2)Barrage Of Nonsense Undermine Superiority Dundee
0% BONUS (3)Bankable Overtime Notches Up Salary Tony McCoy O'Grady
0% BOTTOM LINEBasis Of Trade - To Operate Many Lines Is Needless Expense Tony McCoy O'Grady
100% BRANDINGBuyers Remember A Name, Discredit If No Good Angela Brett
100% BRIBEBig Remittance Is Brash Enough Roger Williams
100% BUSINESSBest Understood Solution If Nothing Else Satisfies Simply Iniyan G
0% BUSINESS OF POLICE PROTECTIONBecause Unpaid Security Is Not Effective, Somebody Should Offer (For Pay) Officer Left In Charge, Exclusively Premises Requested Of The Employer's Client. This Is Ordinary Nowadays. Angela Brett
People & Relationships:Law & Order
100% CABINETCaring About Business Induces Negative Employer's Threat Dundee
0% CABINET (2)Collectivity Assures Blame Is Never Effectively Tackled Tony McCoy O'Grady
Politics
100% CALCULATECosts: Accurately Logged! Counter Unnecessary Longings! Advance Truth Empathetic! Charles H. Montgomery, Jr.
0% CALL BACKSCompile A Little Log Book About Customers - Keep Secret! Tony McCoy O'MayIHaveFiveMinutesOfYourTimeToDiscussXYZ?
0% CHAOS (3)Comprehensive Handling And Organising System David White
100% CLIENTCustomer List - Industrial Enterprises Need Them Tony McCoy O'Grady
92% COMPETITIONCo-operation Of Major Petrol Empires Throws Insult To It, One Notices. Angela Brett, when she received an email urging people to boycott major PETROL companies in order to force the price down. (See also CO-OPERATION)
Transport
0% COMPETITION (2)Consumers Often Monitor Price, Ensuring That It's Truly Indicative Of Noteworthiness Angela Brett
100% CO-OPERATIONComplete Oligarchy Of Petroleum Empires Riles All The Innocent Oil-Needers. Angela Brett (see COMPETITION)
Transport
100% CORPORATIONCity's Officials Regulate Policy Or Respond Appropriately To Incidents Of Note Tony McCoy O'Grady
0% CORPORATION (2)Companies Often Report Profits On Retail And Then Insist On Nondisclosure Sean Lamb
0% COST SAVINGSCut Out Silly Things Since Adding Value Is Not Generating Sales Tony McCoy O'Grady
100% CSCCitizens, Send Cash Jeff Anonymous (In reference to ezboard.com's premium service)
Re-expansions of existing acronyms
0% CUSTOMER REPORTINGCan't Users See That Our Manufacturing Errors Remain Regardless of Everyone Phoning Our Reporting Team? Improvement's Not Gainful. Angela Brett
0% CUSTOMER SATISFACTIONCould Use Some Training On Making Everyone Remember Store As Terrific. I Shouldn't Force A Client To Investigate Our Neighbours. Angela Brett
0% CUSTOMER SERVICECan't Understand Simple Terms Or Makes Excuses Randomly Says Every Record Vanished Internal Combustion Ensues Rico Leffanta
100% DEALERSHIPDruggies Earn A Living Encouraging Regularly Smoking Hashish In Pipes Tony McCoy O'Grady
Drugs
0% DOT COMDoesn't Own Tradable Commodities - Owes Money Tony McCoy O'Grady: Dotcoms usually don't 'do' much and frequently lose money or are in debt since their inception.
Computers:Internet
0% DSL (4)Don't Say 'Lame'! Angela Brett, as an alternate expansion of the more common Disability Sick Leave.
Re-expansions of existing acronyms
100% DUESDebtors Union Exorcising Sanity Rico Leffanta
100% DUTCHDuo Usually Tries Currency Halving Angela Brett, referring to the idiom, 'go Dutch'
0% EARNINGS BEFORE I TRICKED THE DUMB AUDITEvidently A Really Nasty Idiot Now Goes Stealing. Business Enterprises Fail Often - Rip-off Employees' Individual Thefts Rapidly Increase. Can't Keep Employing Deceitful Twits - Have Executive Department Using Much Business Acumen & Using Deep Investigating Tactics Tony McCoy O'Grady - who admires those in the Audit Department where he works
100% EBAYExcellent Buys Available! Yesterday! Roger Williams
Computers:Internet
100% ECONOMICSEach Column Offers Numerous Opportunities; Make It Count Sensibly Patricia Rix
0% ECONOMICS (2)Expend Cautiously - Or No Obvious Merit In Careful Saving? Leo Boyes
0% ELECTRONIC DATA PROCESSINGEver Lost Electronic Credit To Robots Of Nasty Internet Criminals? Don't Allow Their Attacks, Prompt Routine Of Checking Every Site's Security If Negotiating Greenback. Angela Brett
Computers
0% EXPENSE CONTROLEver Xpanding Purchasing Ensures No Savings Exist. Can One Not Try Regulating Outgoing Lolly? TMcCO'G
0% EXPENSE MANAGEMENTEvery Xebec Put Elsewhere Needs Some Explicit Meaning And Necessity. Accountants Gain Extra Money Eliminating Needless Tarriffs. Angela Brett
86% FAILERFailure Approaching = Income Lower than Expenses Repeatedly Charles H. Montgomery, Jr.
0% FAILURE (2)Failure = (Assets + Income Lowering Uncontrollably Repeatedly) < Expenses Charles H. Montgomery, Jr.
0% FAILURE (3)Funds Are Inadequate, Loads Under Running Expenses. Angela Brett
0% FASHION MARKETINGFind A 'Statement', Hang It On Nonchalant Model, And Rich Kids (Exposing Their Insecurities) 'Need' Garment. Angela Brett
Household Objects:Clothing
0% FASHIONS (2)Fools Are Spending Hundreds; It's Old Next Season Angela Brett
Household Objects:Clothing
100% FASTPHONEFunds Are Speedily Transferred, Particularly Handy On Near-Empty. Angela Brett, who often uses her bank's Fastphone service to transfer funds from her savings account to her EFTPOS one.
Communication
100% FILESFresh Interns Love Elderly Seniors Dundee
0% FIRST TIME HOME BUYERFamily Is Readying Sibling To Take Into Mortgages (Earliest "House Of My-own" Experience's Best Undergone Young) & Expensive Repayments Tony McCoy O'Grady
People & Relationships:Family
Places:Buildings
100% FLYERFrightful "Literature" You Eternally Refuse TMcCO'G referring to the handbills handed out on streets to passers-by
Communication
0% FOCUS GROUPFeed Our Customers Under Scrutiny, Gauging Reactions On Unfamiliar Products. Angela Brett
100% FRANCHISEFellow Runs A New Company Having Invested Serious Equity Tony McCoy O'Grady
0% FREE OFFER!Funds Required: Exorbitant! Enticing Offer! Fools Futilely Expect Reward! Charles H. Montgomery, Jr.
92% FUNDRAISINGFrom Unneeded Nickels to Dollars, Reviving An Invalid's Smile... It's Nice Gesture. Angela Brett
100% GROWSGiven Resources Opportunists Win Sales! Charles H. Montgomery, Jr.
100% HALTHorrible... Athome Locks Transactions. Jeff Anonymous, in reference to his ISP halting trading at 14 cents.
100% HANDSHAKEHoping A Nasty Deal Somehow Has A Kiss Enclosed Rico Leffanta
People & Relationships
0% HANDSHAKE (2)Hope A Nice Deal Still Has A Kind Ending Tamara Parisio
People & Relationships
100% HIREHardware Is Rented Everywhere Tony McCoy O'Grady
0% HIRE (2)Having Implement Requires Expenditure Angela Brett
0% HIRE (3)Help Is Required, Evenings Patricia Rix
100% HOBBYHopefully Outcome's Big Bucks, Yes? Angela Brett, when Mike from acronymfinder.com mentioned that his hobby now earns him money in advertising and licensing.
100% IMPORTSI Must Purchase Overseas Requisites Traders Supply Tony McCoy O'Grady
100% INDEBTEDInsolvent Nymph Discovers Every Banker Trusts Exotic Dancers Rico Leffanta
100% INSURANCEInvestment Needed Should User Risk Accidental Nasty Chance Event Tony McCoy O'Grady
100% IRSIncome Retrieval Service Sean Lamb (who just finished filing his 2003 tax return)
Re-expansions of existing acronyms
50% ISPIt Starves [from lack of] Profit Jeff Anonymous, when his ISP's stock was worth fourty cents. (ISP usually stands for Internet Service Provider)
Re-expansions of existing acronyms
Computers:Internet
0% ISP (2)It Starves, Profitless Angela Brett, as a modification of Jeff's ISP.
Re-expansions of existing acronyms
Computers:Internet
0% ISP (5)It Shan't Prevail! Angela Brett, referring to Jeff's ISP
Re-expansions of existing acronyms
0% ISP (6)I'm Sorely Peeved! Tony McCoy O'Grady, in reference to Jeff's ISP
Re-expansions of existing acronyms
Computers:Internet
0% ISP (7)Internet Stopper Plugged Jeff Anonymous (in reference to what'll happen when @home finally does go down the loo...well, I have AOL on the side just in case)
Re-expansions of existing acronyms
Computers:Internet
0% ISP (8)It Seeks Profit Jeff Anonymous, as a modification of ISP
Re-expansions of existing acronyms
Computers:Internet
0% IT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPIDI Think State's Taxing Heavily, Even Employers Cannot Offer New Offices. Maybe You Simply Think Unemployment Punishes Impious Denominations. Angela Brett
Religion
100% JINGLEJangling Intrusive Notes Generate Lavish Expenditure Tony McCoy O'Grady
Assorted Nouns:Noises
0% MADE IN USAMexicans Are Deviously Employed Illegally. No Unions Should Apply Tony McCoy O'Grady
100% MANAGEMENTMaking A Nuisance And Getting Everybody Muddled Eventually Nauseates Them Tony McCoy O'Grady
People & Relationships:The Workforce:Occupations
100% MEETINGSMeaningless Endeavours Engendering Trash, Including Nagging Grandmothers' Stories. Dundee
0% MEETINGS (2)My Employer Expects Togetherness - It Never Generates Solutions Tony McCoy O'Grady
100% MONOPOLYMany Owners Nevermore. One Person Owns Lots. Yikes! Roger Williams
0% NO LONGER IN BUSINESS"No-One Left, Offices Now Gone, Everyone's Redundant, It's Now Bankrupt." (Usual Speechwriter Is Now Employed Somewhere Solvent.) Angela Brett
0% PASSWORD (2)People Actually Seem Stupid Working Outside Required Directives Dundee
0% PIECE OF CAKE! (3)Peace Invasion! Examine Computers! Execution Order: Fillers! Cakers! Assemble Kinder Elevators! Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Bakery acquires another bakery and gives raises toall.
Food & Drink
0% POOR MANPeople Ordinary Opulent Retaining Mana And Nous Mary Carr
People & Relationships
100% PORTFOLIOPlenty Of Red Tape Folding One's Lifetime Investment Opportunities Tony McCoy O'DowJones
100% PRICEProfit Received = Incoming Cash - Expenses Charles H. Montgomery, Jr.
0% PRODUCT IMPROVEMENTPlease Remember Ordinary Daily Users. Code Tuning Isn't Much Prized - Regardless Of Velocity, Exasperation Makes Everything Need Time. Angela Brett (Most everyday software doesn't really benefit from code-tuning to make each operation run as quickly as possible... productivity really increases when the software is made easier to use.)
Computers:Programming
100% PURCHASINGPeople Using Resources Can Haggle And/or Shop In New Grocers Tony McCoy O'ShoppingTrolley
0% PURCHASING POWERPeople Using Real Cash Have A Strength In Numbers, Grocers Provide Offers Which Earn Revenue TMcCO'G
100% QUESTIONQuery Usually Eliciting Some Thought, If One's Nice Tony McCoy O'Grady
100% REFUNDReturning Endorsements For Using Notes, Deficient Jan Morgan
100% REPOSSESSIONRepugnant Event, Perhaps One Should've Sent Expected Stipend, Since It's Overdue Now. Tony McCoy O'Grady
100% RETAILReally Expensive Things Are Individually Labelled Tony McCoy O'Grady
0% RICH MANRandy Ignorant Craving Hideous Money Amid Needy Mary Carr
100% SALESome Articles Less Expensive Tony Moore
0% SALES AND MARKETINGSuccessful Agents Learn Each Stock's Assets, New Deals Made Are Regularly - Keep Exceeding Targets In Noteworthy Growth Tony McCoy O'Grady
0% SALES ANGLE: "HOMES" CHEAP!Secure Abodes: Lush Environs! Swimming! Appropiately Named "Great Lakes Estates: Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie & Superior!" Constraint: Have Easy Annual Payments! Charles H. Montgomery, Jr.
Places:Buildings
0% SALES GOALSShamelessly A Lad Expounds Spurious Gobbledygook On Acme's Latest System Angela Brett
0% SALES GOALS (2)Seem A Little Excessive? Some General Office Ass Lacks Sense Tony McCoy O'Grady (Sales goals are usually just-about-unachieveable levels set by someone in headquarters, who has never worked on the shop-floor)
0% SAME DAY PROCESSING'Snaps' Are Magically, Expressly, Developed And (Yes) Printed Rapidly. Our Computer Ensures Shoddy Shot In Not Generated Tony McCoy O'Grady
0% SAVING NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLSStopping Another Vexing Installation of National Grocery Network; Education Is Good, However [much] Buying Our Radishes Hurts! Our Overpriced Dairies Should Continue Having Oligopoly, Or Learning Suffers. Angela Brett, thinking of schools which might be destroyed to make way for a new supermarket.
Education
80% SCREGGANSmall Criss-crossed Region Erroneously Generated - Generally After New-year Tony McCoy O'Grady (Screggan is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as meaning, 'The crossed-out bit caused by people putting the wrong year on their cheques all through January.')
Words & Wordplay:Liffs
100% SCRIPShoddy Controls Ruin Internet Provider Tony McCoy O'Grady, in response to HALT.
100% SELL!Secure Employment! Live Luxe! Charles H. Montgomery, Jr.
0% SELL CARSSpec! Exhibit! Log Luxe Cars: Audi, Rolls, Simca! Charles H. Montgomery, Jr.
Transport
100% SHITShipping Handling Insurance & Tax Apronymous Anonymous
0% SHOP CATEGORIESShopkeepers Have Obviously Planned to Call Attention To Each Grouping - Order Related Items Easily, Shoppers! Angela Brett
100% SHOPPINGShe Has One Philia, Purchasing Inexpensive (Not!) Gifts Robert Anonymous
0% SHOPPING BAGString Handles Often Please Purchasers - I'll Now Go Buying Additional Groceries Tony McCoy O'Grady, as an example of something which is worse with NO STRINGS ATTACHED (String Handles)
0% SIGNATURE (2)Smallprint Is Giving Nobody A Total Understanding... Refrain/Retract Endorsement. Angela Brett
People & Relationships:Law & Order
100% STOCKASTICSales That Oscillate Chaotically Keep Any Stockpiling Tendencies In Check. Angela Brett, after reading a paper which mentioned stochastic sales, and thinking that perhaps 'stockastic' would be a better term.
Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words
0% STOCKS AND SHARESSeeking Tons Of Capital, Keen Shareholders Always Need Detailed Statements - Hopefully Annual Returns Escalate Sharply Tony McCoy O'Grady
100% STOPSuspend Trading On Provider Tony McCoy O'Grady, in response to HALT.
0% SUPPLY CHAINSome Use Palmtop PCs/ Laptops - You Can Have Airbourne Information Network Angela Brett, thinking of recent TV ads showing the way a biscuit company makes use of tablet PCs with wireless internet to automate their 'supply chain'.
0% SURVIVE! (4)Sensing Unresonable/Unexpected Rise Valiantly! Innovate Victory Enthusiastically/Energetically/Electrically! Charles H. Montgomery, Jr.
Assorted Verbs
100% SWAPSubstitute Without A Prayer Rico Leffanta
0% SWAP (2)Switch With A Peer's Angela Brett
100% TABTotal A Bill Tony McCoy O'Grady
0% TAB (2)Taking A Bill Jan Morgan
0% THE CRANBERRIES TRADERSTimbre Has Enchanting Characteristics, Ridiculous-thinkers Await New Bootlegs Eagerly… Really Rare Items are Expensive - Singles, Too, Require Ample Dough, Especially Rarer Songs. Angela Brett - Ridiculous-thinkers is a reference to the people on the Ridiculous Thoughts mailing list, a discussion/trading list about the Irish band The Cranberries.
Entertainment:Music
0% TIP (2)The Insider: "Psssst..." Angela Brett
Communication
0% TIP (4)Thanks, Inexperienced Porter! Angela Brett
0% UNBEATABLE PRICESUse No Banknotes Extra! Afford The Absolute Best Low Echelon Products! Rubbish Is Cheap, Expect Some. Angela Brett
0% UNBEATABLE PRICES (2)Usually Nobody Believes Everything Advertised Today, Although Bigger Lies Easily Permit Retailers Instantly Contacting Every Sucker. Roger Williams
100% VAPORWAREVenders Advertise Prematurely. Often Resources Wane And Research Ends. Roger Williams
0% VISA CARDVastly Increases Spending Ability... Can Also Raise Debts Angela Brett
100% VOUCHERValue On Usage; Can Habitually Expire Rapidly Edwin Hermann (with the semicolon, the expansion talks about it having a value when you redeem it, and that the voucher can expire quickly, without the semicolon it talks about the value often expiring fast.)
0% WALL STREETWant A Lot (of) Lolly? Selling Things Really Expensively Earns Thousands! Tony McCoy O'Grady
100% WAREHOUSEWhere A Retailing Empire Holds Over Unsold Stock Excess Tony McCoy O'Grady
Places:Buildings
0% WHITE ELEPHANT SALEWe Have It Today! Everything Exotic! Ladies, Examine Pink Hammers And Neck Ties. See Amazing Luminous Eyemask! Angela Brett (referring to eye masks used for sleeping)
100% WINFIELDWoolwoorth's Internal Name For Its 'Emulatory Label' Designs Tony McCoy O'Grady = Winfield is the name used by the Woolworth group for its 'own brand' label products. Winfield was the second forename of Frank W Woolworth who founded the company.
Names:Famous people
100% WORKWeed Out Recreational Knowledge Rico Leffanta
People & Relationships:The Workforce
86% YUPPIEYou Use Phone in Porsche... It's Extravagant! Angela Brett
People & Relationships
100% ZAIBATSUZen Associates Is Biased, Affluent Top Socialites United Jan Morgan