| AA | More Than One Year | 
| AB | First Six-Month Period | 
| AC | Second Six-Month Period | 
| AD | Average Daily | 
| AE | Under One Year | 
| AF | Next Three Months | 
| AG | Four Month Period | 
| AM | Average Monthly | 
| AN | Annual | 
| AP | Academic Period | 
| AY | Average Year | 
| BD | Buyer's Manufacturing Days | 
| BM | Bimonthly | 
| BW | Bi-weekly | 
| CC | Cycles Periodic cycling of extreme levels of a variable | 
| CY | Calendar Year | 
| DA | Calendar Days | 
| DW | Work Days | 
| DY | Day | 
| EA | Calendar Year-to-Date | 
| EB | Campaign-to-Date | 
| EC | Election Cycle | 
| ED | This Period | 
| EE | To Date | 
| EL | Option Period at End of Lease | 
| F1 | Fiscal Year Plus One Year | 
| F2 | Fiscal Year Plus Two Years | 
| FY | Fiscal Year | 
| HR | Hours | 
| ID | Inception to Date | 
| KK | Maximum Calendar Days | 
| KL | As Required | 
| LN | Lease Termination Notification Period | 
| LT | Lease Term | 
| MD | Month to Date | 
| MI | Minutes | 
| MO | Month | 
| MS | Mean Time Between Stops Measure of the average time interval between an item or product stop; a noncatastrophic event | 
| MT | Mean Time Between Failure Measure of the average time interval between an item or product failure; a catastrophic event | 
| NX | Next Six Months | 
| PA | Plan Year to Date | 
| PD | Period to Date | 
| PM | Preceding 12 Months | 
| PR | Preceding Six Months | 
| Q1 | First Quarter | 
| Q2 | Second Quarter | 
| Q3 | Third Quarter | 
| Q4 | Fourth Quarter | 
| QY | Quarter of a Year | 
| SA | Semiannual | 
| SD | Seller's Manufacturing Days | 
| SH | Shift | 
| SM | Semimonthly | 
| SP | Summer Period | 
| TY | Tax Year | 
| WK | Weeks | 
| WW | Work Week | 
| WY | Weekly | 
| YD | Year to Date | 
| ZZ | Mutually Defined |