INITIALESE
INITIALESE. An informal, sometimes pejorative term for a style that uses INITIALS to economize in space, effort, and expense. It assumes familiarity on the part of readers or listeners and is common in classified advertisements, in which time names and stock phrases are reduced to letters with or without points: tel telephone; Mon, Sept.; ono/o.n.o. or nearest offer. See -ESE.
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