Reverse Acronyms, Initialisms & Abbreviations Dictionary

by Gale Cengage Learning (Editor), Mary R. Bonk

"One of the most distinguished reference titles published during the past 25 years". -- RQNew Edition Here's a dictionary that will make you an expert on modern communications. More than 520,000 definitions of a wide variety of acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations and similar contractions enable you to quickly and easily translate terms into their full names or meanings. Use this comprehensive dictionary to replace numerous specialized dictionaries and look up virtually any acronym in this one source.

3775 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

Gale is an educational publishing company based in Farmington Hills, Michigan, the United States, in the western suburbs of Detroit. It was part of the Thomson Learning division of the Thomson Corporation, a Canadian company, but became part of Cengage Learning in 2007.

The company, formerly known as Gale Research and the Gale Group, is active in research and educational publishing for public and academic libraries, schools and businesses. The company may be best known for its full-text magazine and newspaper database, InfoTrac, and other online databases accessible from schools and libraries, as well as multi-volume reference works, especially in the areas of religion, history and social science.

Founded in Detroit in 1954 by Frederick Gale Ruffner, it was acquired by Thomson in 1985.