ETS

Initialism of Educational Testing Service: the world's largest private nonprofit educational testing and assessment organization, founded in 1947.

Proper noun

  1. Initialism of Educational Testing Service: the world's largest private nonprofit educational testing and assessment organization, founded in 1947.

Noun

  1. Initialism of emissions trading scheme.
    • Free pollution permits worth €98.5bn were given to energy-intensive sectors […]. This is more than the €88.5bn that the EU’s emissions trading scheme (ETS) charged polluters, mostly coal and gas power stations, for...
  2. Initialism of environmental tobacco smoke.
    • The evidence clearly showed that ETS increased the risk of SIDS, but the panel couldn’t decide whether that risk was caused by prenatal smoking, postnatal ETS, or both. - 2010, Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway, chapter 5,...

    Synonyms: SHS

  3. Initialism of end of term of service or expiration of term of service.
  4. Initialism of estimated time of separation.

Forms

ETSes