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FTP en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˌɛf tiː ˈpiː/
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Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) free-to-play

FTP en · INTJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˌɛf tiː ˈpiː/
  • (US) audio

Meanings

  1. (US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of fuck the police.
    • "Fuck the police" emerged as the unofficial motto of the 1992 riots in Los Angeles[…]Following the murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson, street signs and businesses were frequently tagged with FTP. [2018, David Correia, Tyler Wall, Police: A Field Guide, page 263:
    • As nationwide protests continue to grow, demanding justice for George Floyd and the black community as a whole, YG has shared a new protest song titled "FTP (F--- the Police)." 2020 June 2, “YG Has a Clear Message in New Protest Song 'FTP'”, in Billboard:
Source: en.wiktionary, “FTP” (intj), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

FTP en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˌɛf tiː ˈpiː/
  • (US) audio

Meanings

  1. An instance of sending files via FTP (the File Transfer Protocol).
    • Each batch is an FTP. The log tracking them is on the dashboard.
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of free trade port, a port that is a free trade zone.
    • Chinese officials gush about their decision to turn the tropical island of Hainan into the world’s largest free-trade port (FTP). They describe the move, which took effect in December, as a “substantial leap” in the country’s opening to foreigners seeking to tap China’s vast markets. […] When China’s leader, Xi Jinping, first announced the free-trade plan for Hainan in 2018, some observers wondered whether he intended to build a new Hong Kong—a free-trade hub that plays a vital role for foreigners as a gateway to China’s markets and as a China-linked financial centre. For now, Hainan’s ambitions are more modest, even though the area covered by the FTP is huge: the island is nearly the size of Taiwan and 30 times bigger than Hong Kong. But it is taking a leap. The new FTP means that 74% of goods can now enter the island without tariffs. They can be shipped to the mainland on the same zero-levy terms as long as they undergo processing in Hainan that adds at least 30% to their value. To lure investors and talent, taxes on firms in strategic sectors and on high earners will be capped at 15%. That compares with 35% and 45%, respectively, on the mainland. 2026 February 1, “China has launched a huge free-trade experiment. Will reforms on a big southern island kick-start changes elsewhere?”, in The Economist:
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of Future Time Perspective (a scale developed by Carstensen and Frieder Lang).

Forms

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FTPs Number=Plur lexicographic

Hypernyms

free trade zone · place · zone · FTZ · location · site

Source: en.wiktionary, “FTP” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

FTP en · PROPN

Pronunciation

  • /ˌɛf tiː ˈpiː/
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Meanings

  1. (Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of File Transfer Protocol (a technology for transferring files over the Internet).

Deriveds

FTP site · FTP server

Hyponyms

SFTP · sFTP

Source: en.wiktionary, “FTP” (name), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

FTP en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ˌɛf tiː ˈpiː/
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Meanings

  1. (transitive) To transfer using File Transfer Protocol.
    • Having saved header.php, I FTPed it back to the Sandbox theme folder, overwriting the old version. 2008, Paul Thewlis, WordPress for Business Bloggers:
    • Just as newsgroups have certain rules to live by, there are several courtesies to remember when FTPing and telneting to remote sites […] 1995, Richard Wagner, Inside CompuServe:
    • We FTP the whole dataset to the customer after we've scanned it to ensure that no restricted data is left inside it.

Forms

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FTPed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
FTPed Tense=Past lexicographic
FTPing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
FTPs Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic