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GNP

GNP is the initialism of gross national product.

Meaning of gross national product

Noun

gross national product (usually uncountable, plural gross national products)

  1. (usually) The total market value of all the goods and services produced by a nation (citizens of a country, whether living at home or abroad) during a specified period.
    • Within the two years from 1956 to 1958 the increase of expenditures was 34 per cent in terms of dollar outlays and 28 per cent in terms of the portion of gross national product spent on higher education.1962, Fritz Machlup, The Production and Distribution of Knowledge in the United States, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 77

Forms of GNP

pluralGNPs

Questions about GNP

What is GNP the initialism of?
GNP is the initialism of gross national product.

Words near GNP in the dictionary

  1. gnotobiotically
  2. gnotobiotics
  3. Gnotuk
  4. gnow
  5. gnows
  6. GNP
  7. GNPs
  8. gnr
  9. GnRH
  10. GnRHa
  11. gnrs

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