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PPE

PPE is the initialism of personal protective equipment.

PPE is the initialism of property.

PPE is the initialism of philosophy.

PPE is the initialism of PCBoard programming executable.

Meaning of personal protective equipment

Noun

personal protective equipment

  1. Clothing, helmets, goggles, and other garments and equipment designed to protect the wearer's body from injury, poison, or infection.

Meaning of property

Noun

property (countable and uncountable, plural properties)

  1. Something that is owned.
    • Leave those books alone! They are my property.
  2. A piece of real estate, such as a parcel of land.
    • There is a large house on the property.
    Synonyms:
    land, parcel
  3. (UK) Real estate; the business of selling houses.
    • He works in property as a housing consultant.
  4. The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying and disposing of a thing.
  5. An attribute or abstract quality associated with an individual, object or concept.
    • Charm is his most endearing property.
  6. An attribute or abstract quality which is characteristic of a class of objects.
    • Matter can have many properties, including color, mass and density.

See all 13 meanings of property

Synonyms of PPE

Forms of PPE

pluralPPEs

Questions about PPE

What is PPE the initialism of?
PPE is the initialism of personal protective equipment.

Words near PPE in the dictionary

  1. PPC
  2. PPCRV
  3. PPCs
  4. ppd
  5. PPDS
  6. PPE
  7. PPEist
  8. PPEists
  9. PPEs
  10. PPF
  11. PPFs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: PPE (page history and authors); personal protective equipment (page history and authors); property (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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