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NPL en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of non-performing loan.
    • VTB’s First Deputy CEO, Dmitry Pyanov, said the share of NPLs could rise to between 6% and 7% within the next few months, but stressed that this was still far from peak levels. VTB estimated the share of restructured corporate loans at 3%. 2025 July 3, Elena Fabrichnaya, “Russian central bank sees no risk of looming banking crisis”, in Reuters:

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

NPL en · PROPN

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of National Physical Laboratory.
    • The Planck constant is, in turn, measured using an instrument known as the Kibble balance, first developed at NPL by the late physicist Bryan Kibble. 2018 November 13, Matthew Robinson and Lianne Kolirin, “The world has just redefined the kilogram”, in CNN: