Common contents include. 1  Recent news releases touting the individual, company or company's products. 2  A company or personal backgrounder, relating the company's history. 3  Biographies of company officials, or at least a company's officers.
uk â /ËÃ¦k.rÉ.nÉªm/ us â /ËÃ¦k.rÉ.nÉªm/. âº an abbreviation consisting of the first letters of each word in the name of something, pronounced as a word: AIDS is an acronym for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
An acronym is an abbreviation, used as a word, which is formed from the initial components in a phrase or a word. Usually these components are individual letters (as in NATO or laser) or parts of words or names (as in Benelux).hile initial letters are commonly used to form an acronym, the original definition was a word made from the initial letters or syllables of other words, for example UNIVAC from UNIVersal Automatic Computer. In English, acronyms pronounced as words may be a 20th-century phenomenon.