CPS
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[edit]CPS (countable and uncountable, plural CPSes)
- (telecommunications) Initialism of characters per second.
- Alternative form: cps
- (video games) Initialism of clicks per second.
- (US) Initialism of child protective services.
- 2022, Leila Mottley, Nightcrawling, Bloomsbury, page 226:
- I can’t let the reporters see him looking like this anyway, so swollen that CPS would be here before dinner.
- Initialism of clean plate syndrome.
- (US) Initialism of Current Population Survey.
- (computing) Initialism of cyber-physical system.
- (functional programming, uncountable) Initialism of continuation-passing style. [from 1975]
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- (UK, law) Initialism of Crown Prosecution Service.
- 2020, Ben Aaronovitch, False Value, Gollancz, page 233:
- ‘Itʼs entrapment,’ said Silver. ‘The CPS wonʼt prosecute.’
- (UK politics) Initialism of Centre for Policy Studies.
- 2012 August 22, Andy Beckett, “Britannia Unchained: the rise of the new Tory right”, in The Guardian[2]:
- Last year, for example, Raab wrote a paper for the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) – since the birth of Thatcherism one of the radical right's fiercest thinktanks […]
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