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FTP

/ˌɛf tiː ˈpiː/

FTP adjective: free-to-play. Also the initialism of free trade port.

Adjective

FTP (not comparable)

  1. free-to-play

Noun

FTP (plural FTPs)

  1. An instance of sending files via FTP (the File Transfer Protocol).
    • Each batch is an FTP. The log tracking them is on the dashboard.

Verb

FTP (third-person singular simple present FTPs, present participle FTPing, simple past and past participle FTPed)

  1. (transitive) To transfer using File Transfer Protocol.
    • We FTP the whole dataset to the customer after we've scanned it to ensure that no restricted data is left inside it.
    • Just as newsgroups have certain rules to live by, there are several courtesies to remember when FTPing and telneting to remote sites […]1995, Richard Wagner, Inside CompuServe

Also used as

FTP is also the initialism of free trade port.

FTP is also the initialism of Future Time Perspective.

FTP is also the initialism of File Transfer Protocol.

FTP is also the initialism of fuck the police.

Forms of FTP

Noun
pluralFTPs
Verb
third-person singular presentFTPs
present participleFTPing
past participleFTPed
pastFTPed

Words formed from FTP

  • FTP server
  • FTP site

Questions about FTP

What does FTP mean?
FTP means free-to-play.
What part of speech is FTP?
FTP can be an adjective, a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce FTP?
FTP is pronounced /ˌɛf tiː ˈpiː/.

Words near FTP in the dictionary

  1. FTMTF
  2. FTMTFs
  3. FTO
  4. FTO's
  5. FTOs
  6. FTP
  7. FTPable
  8. FTPed
  9. ftpi
  10. FTPing
  11. ftpmm

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Adapted from Wiktionary: FTP (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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