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resp

resp adjective: respiratory. Also the clipping of response.

Adjective

resp (not comparable)

  1. (colloquial) Respiratory.
    • resp rate
    • resp failure
  2. (personal advertisements) responsible

Noun (1)

resp (countable and uncountable, plural resps)

  1. (colloquial, uncountable) Respirology or respiratory medicine.
    • resp review

Noun (2) capitalized: RESP

RESP (plural RESPs)

  1. (Canada, abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of registered education savings plan, an investment vehicle allowing caregivers to save for their children's post-secondary education, offering subsidies and potential tax advantages.

Also used as

resp is also the clipping of response.

resp is also the alternative form of risp.

Forms of resp

Noun
pluralresps
pluralRESPs
Verb
third-person singular presentresps
present participleresping
past participleresped
pastresped

Questions about resp

What does resp mean?
Resp means respiratory.
What part of speech is resp?
Resp can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near resp in the dictionary

  1. resowed
  2. resowing
  3. resowings
  4. resown
  5. resows
  6. resp
  7. resp'ct
  8. resp.
  9. RESPA
  10. respace
  11. respaced

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Adapted from Wiktionary: resp (page history and authors); RESP (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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