Meaning of FYI | Babel Free

Definitions

Initialism of for your information.

abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

Equivalents

Examples

“FYI, there are donuts in the break room. [sentence adverbial use]”

“I just wanted to give you an FYI about the donuts in the break room. [noun use]”

“He forwards so many FYIs that sometimes it feels a bit like the boy who cried wolf. [noun use]”

“At the close of a recent cable describing the recovery of his censor-held photographs of the fighting in the Holy Land, Life photographer John Phillips added the casual postscript: "FYI, Burke narrowly escaped death outside Jerusalem a few days ago."”

“But I’ve only ever used it combined with hormonal birth control, FYI, and I’m currently not on any birth control.”

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