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PPP

abbreviation for PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP.
Collins Dictionary of Law © W.J. Stewart, 2006
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I'm a lucky chap. So I'll thank you to take the nine suvreigns, Mr.
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Aye, among some of us old sailor chaps, he goes by that name.
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I never heard of so unreasonable an old chap! Here is a young fellow that offers to marry his daughter for $30,000--half price, as one may say-- and he talks about covering every cent he lays down with one of my own.
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He liked to play at being a big personage in a mysterious sort of way, and the poor chap's paid for it," he added with a sigh.
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"And last of all, Pip - and this I want to say very serious to you, old chap - I see so much in my poor mother, of a woman drudging and slaving and breaking her honest hart and never getting no peace in her mortal days, that I'm dead afeerd of going wrong in the way of not doing what's right by a woman, and I'd fur rather of the two go wrong the t'other way, and be a little ill-conwenienced myself.
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Now 'twas just here last June, as we was a- driving up the first-day boys, they was mendin' a quarter-mile of road, and there was a lot of Irish chaps, reg'lar roughs, a- breaking stones.
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"That chap at Margit ought to 'ave tole me about it.
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As I was saying, you're a needy chap that I pick up in the street.
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But damn the bit of manners has the fellow, any more than if he was one of them Guineas down in the kitchen there; and so as he was sheering nearer, every stretch he made toward the house, I could do no better than to let your honor know that the chap was in the offing.”
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'Stars and garthers, chap!' said John, 'wa'at dost thou coom and say thot for?
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"The chap who did that yelling seems to be in trouble!"
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"What did they do, all the chaps I knew, the chaps in the clubs with whom I'd been cheek by jowl for heaven knows how long?
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