PEP

PEP (countable and uncountable, plural PEPs)

(medicine) Initialism of post-exposure prophylaxis.
Coordinate term: PrEP
(UK, finance) Initialism of personal equity plan (a former financial instrument).
(UK, countable) Initialism of politically exposed person.
- 2025 December 20, Victoria Bekiempis, “Outrage and legal threats: Trump justice department slammed after limited Epstein files release”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:
  “To set the record straight: No Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) were redacted from today’s released Epstein documents. All references to PEPs were disclosed in full. Do you not see Clinton’s face??” a justice department media relations account said on X.
(biochemistry) Initialism of phosphoenolpyruvate.
(programming, countable) Initialism of Python enhancement proposal.
- 2018, Cody Jackson, Secret Recipes of the Python Ninja: Over 70 recipes that uncover powerful programming tactics in Python, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 282:
  PEPs are design documents that provide information to the Python community, describing new features (or proposed new features) for Python, its processes, or its environment.

PEP

(UK politics, historical) Initialism of Political and Economic Planning, a British policy think tank.
Coordinate term: PSI
- 1967, “Researchers find widespread discrimination and prejudice against immigrants to Britain”, in The Observer‎:
  Come a survey like last week’s PEP report on the extent of race prejudice, and another such wave looks like jogging the Government into introducing legislation dealing with housing and employment.

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