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PV

PV is the initialism of probation violation.

PV is the initialism of process variable.

PV is the initialism of pharmacovigilance.

PV is the initialism of promotional video.

PV is the initialism of phrasal verb.

PV is the initialism of pulmonary valve.

Meaning of pharmacovigilance

Noun

pharmacovigilance (uncountable)

  1. The detection, assessment, understanding and prevention of adverse effects of medicines.
    • In our experience, a request concerning suspected drug toxicity (or an adverse effect) needs to be dealt with in greater detail than other chemical agents, to obtain information on the animals affected (species, breed, age, physiological and pathological status) and on the suspect product...1987, Veterinary Drug Registration Newsletter, Paris: Office International des Epizooties, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 23

Meaning of phrasal verb

Noun

phrasal verb (plural phrasal verbs)

  1. A two-word verb, consisting of a verb and a "small" adverb or particle, that has an idiomatic meaning not easily predictable from the individual parts.
    • In 'The police told the driver to pull over', 'pull over' is a phrasal verb.
  2. (more loosely) A phrase, consisting of a verb with a preposition and/or adverb, that has idiomatic meaning.
    • Thus, it would seem that as far as GAPPING is concerned, the whole expression put off is somehow treated as a single 'compound Verb'. But this is the very intuition which we encapsulated in analysis (125) (b), by giving the sequence [put off] the status of a single V constituent (i.e. by analysing...1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 98

Forms of PV

pluralPVs

Origin of PV

Abbreviation. * Sense "promotional video" is a borrowing from Japanese PV (PV, “promotional video”), from English promotional + video.

Phrases with PV

Questions about PV

What is PV the initialism of?
PV is the initialism of probation violation.

Words near PV in the dictionary

  1. puzzolanos
  2. puzzolans
  3. Pušća
  4. Pușcași
  5. Puṇṇa Mantānīputta
  6. PV
  7. PV diagram
  8. PV diagrams
  9. PV number
  10. PV numbers
  11. PVA

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Adapted from Wiktionary: PV (page history and authors); pharmacovigilance (page history and authors); phrasal verb (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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