ACRONYMS

Question 1

CEO
COO
CFO

Answer 1

Chief Executive Officer (=Managind Director)
Chief Operating Officer
Chief Financial Officer

Question 2

Dept.

Answer 2

Department

Question 3

Pd

Answer 3

Paid

Question 4

FYI

Answer 4

For Your Information (“FYI, the monthly sales report for June is attached to this email.”)

Question 5

RSVP

Answer 5

Please Respond (from French: répondez s’il vous plaît)

Question 6

N/A

Answer 6

Not Applicable/not available/no answer

Question 7

ATTN

Answer 7

Attention (Attn: + [name or title of person])

Question 8

BTW

Answer 8

By The Way (informal)

Question 9

w/c

Answer 9

week commencing (B.E.) (“I have scheduled the project to start w/c Monday 3rd June”)

Question 10

AWOL

MIA

Answer 10

Absent Without Leave (go AWOL;”My glasses have gone AWOL again, I cannot find them anywhere”)
Missed In Action (My colleague has gone MIA, I haven’t seen him for a week: do you know what’s happening with him?)

Question 11

TBA

TBD

Answer 11

To Be Announced (“The new Finance Manager will be joining us next month. The actual date is TBA.”)
To Be Discussed/Defined/Decided

Question 12

ETA

Answer 12

Estimated Time of Arrival (“Let me know your flight’s ETA so I can be at the airport to pick you up.”)

Question 13

cc

Answer 13

carbon copy (now, a copy of an e-mail) “Remember to cc the proposal to your manager.”

Question 14

i.e.

Answer 14

id est (that’s to say…/clarifying something)

Question 15

e.g.

Answer 15

exempli gratia (for example…/listing things)

Question 16

OOO

Answer 16

Out Of Office

Question 17

EOD

Answer 17

End Of Day (“Send me the invoices by EOD”)