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acronym

noun/ˈækrənɪm/

B1CEFR level
25/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister

A word formed from the initial letters of a phrase, used as a memory aid or shorthand.

SBAR is an acronym that structures a handover into four clear sections.

Similar: initialism

Topic: Clinical handover in Medical English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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