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Out of curiosity, what is an NFP?

Sorry if I should have known. I did try searching and found Non-Farm Payrolls, Nurse-Family Partnership, Natural Family Planning, and an insurance broker. It's not one of those, is it?

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Definitely Natural Family planning. He is sperm #22

I assume Not For Proft.

yes. my bad. in OZ, we speak about the CBD all the time. Apparently, nobody else does this for the central business district. you must think we're all stoned, all the time.

NFP is used a lot in the not for profit sector, alongside NGO for non-government organisation.

The UK also has Quasi-nongovernmental organisations, referring to a general class of arms-length statutory bodies and regulatory/representative agencies that have some devolved authority but little/no direct ministerial or parliamentary oversight. They’re often still publicly funded, or have appointments by patronage, and therefore have split loyalties; or as the saying goes, it takes two to quango.

Quasi-autonomous nongovernmental organisations, in fact.

I believe that is a later backronym, although equally valid, not least since the term is satirical.

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