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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | DPP Dining Philosophers Problem. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
DPP | English | Democratic Progressive Party | N/A |
DPP | Portuguese | Dotações para pagamentos totais | European Union, Finance |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: DPP |
| Specialty definitions using "DPP": Dining Philosophers Problem. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Taiwan | The ruling DPP is associated with Formosa TV (FTV), an island-wide broadcast television station based in Kaohsiung. (references) |
Taiwan | DPP leaders, many of whom were convicted of sedition after the 1979 Kaohsiung incident, nevertheless are not affected because their rights were restored through presidential amnesties by the previous administration. (references) | |
Guyana | Police alleged that Benschop incited officers to murder the Police Commissioner by stating, "I am calling on all police officers to turn your weapons on Laurie Lewis." The trials of both Waddell and Benschop were postponed; the DPP requested additional time to appoint a prosecutor. (references) | |
Economic History | Taiwan | The DPP membership is made up largely of native Taiwanese. (references) |
Taiwan | In the 1992 Legislative Yuan elections, the DPP won 51 seats in the 161-seat body. (references) | |
Taiwan | With the inauguration of Chen Shui-bian as President in May 2000, the DPP became the new ruling party, ending over 50 years of KMT rule on Taiwan. (references) | |
Human Rights | Jamaica | The BSI was preparing to submit the case to the DPP at year's end. (references) |
Jamaica | By year's end, the DPP had not decided whether to file criminal charges. (references) | |
Belize | However, the DPP referred the case to a coroner's inquest, which had not reached a conclusion by year's end. (references) | |
Political Economy | Taiwan | In December the DPP won a plurality of seats in the LY in free and fair elections. (references) |
Taiwan | However, during the late 1990s, as the DPP matured and gained a more significant role in Taiwan politics, it modified its stance on Taiwan independence. (references) | |
Taiwan | In addition to the DPP, the KMT, the People First Party, and the Taiwan Solidarity Union play significant roles in the LY. The Judicial Yuan (JY) is constitutionally independent of the other branches of the political system, and the Government respected the judiciary's independence in practice. (references) | |
Political Rights | Taiwan | The DPP won a plurality in the December legislative elections, obtaining 87 of 225 seats. (references) |
Taiwan | Following its victory in the 2000 presidential election, the ruling DPP grew to include approximately 450,000 members. (references) | |
Taiwan | Two of the 11 members of the DPP Central Standing Committee are women, as are 11 of the KMT's 31 Central Standing Committee members. (references) | |
Women | Guyana | Despite efforts by NGO's and the DPP to sensitize police officers to domestic violence, the police often are hesitant to interfere in cases of domestic disputes. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "DPP" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 81.82% of the time. "DPP" is used about 154 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 81.82% | 126 | 28,512 |
| Noun (common) | 11.69% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Noun (singular) | 5.84% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.65% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 154 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "DPP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 民進黨 . (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | dppay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "d-p-p" | |
+2 letters: dippy, piped, upped. | |
+3 letters: append, bopped, capped, copped, cupped, dapped, dapper, dapple, dipped, dipper, drippy, dupped, fopped, gapped, gipped, gypped, happed, hipped, hopped, kepped, kipped, lapped, lipped, lopped, mapped, mopped, napped, nipped, peeped, pepped, peptid, pimped, pipped, pooped, popped, pulped, pumped, pupped, rapped, repped, ripped, sapped, sipped, sopped, supped, tapped, tipped, topped, tupped, wapped, yapped, yipped, zapped, zipped. | |
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