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Meaning:

initialism:

  • British Statutory Adoption Pay, payments made by an employer to an employee who is absent from work after the adoption of a child.
  • SAP AG, derived from the German ''Systeme, Anwendungen und Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung'', one of the world's largest software companies.
  • Scientific Advisory Panel
  • obsolete South Africa Party.
  • South Africa South African Police.
  • television second audio program
  • military Special Access Program

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Noun:

  • slang|countable A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop; a naive person.
  • US|slang A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
  • military A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
  • uncountable The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
  • uncountable The sap-wood, or alburnum, of a tree.

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Verb:

  • transitive|military To pierce with saps.
  • intransitive To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps ? 12
  • To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
  • slang To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
  • transitive To gradually weaken.
  • transitive To wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.

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