Jefferson County and the DNR may, from time to time, conduct surveys of boat use in the bay, but will predominately rely upon the monitoring protocol, as described in objective 4 of this plan, for determining when enforcement action is needed in South Port Townsend Bay.
al-. var. of ad- before l: allure. -al1. a suffix with the general sense âof the kind of, pertaining to, having the form or character ofâ that named by the stem, occurring in loanwords from Latin (autumnal; natural; pastoral), and productive in English on the Latin model, usu. with bases of Latin origin (accidental; seasonal; tribal).
One of these is the Latin phrase et al., an abbreviation meaning âand others.â It is used to shorten lists of author names in text citations to make repeated referencing shorter and simpler. Note that et al. is italicized in this post when I am using it as a linguistic example, but it should not be italicized when you are using it as part of a reference citation.