See Also: normative(medicine)
normative(dictionary)
normative(dictionary)
Normative economics(finance)

GPO, the (oh) and normative (iou)


GPO, the (oh)



the General Post Office the former name of the organization that controls mail in the UK, now called the Post Office
Government Printing Office a US government organization that prints government documents, maps, books etc, which it gives to national libraries and government offices, and sells to the public at low cost
-see also HMSO

normative (iou)



normative adjective. L19.
[French normatif, -ive, from Latin NORMA: see -ATIVE.]
Establishing a norm or standard; of, deriving from, or implying a standard or norm; prescriptive. L19.
Petrography. Of or pertaining to the norm of a rock. E20.
normatively adverb M20.
normativeness noun M20.
normativism noun a normative approach or attitude L20.
normativist noun a person having normative ideas or attitudes M20.
norma'tivity noun the quality of being normative M20.