That's industry shorthand for a supercar that can also be used as a road car.

I.S.P. is industry shorthand for Internet service provider.

"It's basically a P&D deal" - industry shorthand for production and distribution.

"The portion of users they'd potentially alienate with a broadband feature is really small," he said, using industry shorthand for tools intended to work with fast connections.

"Then we saw all the charge-backs, and it hit us," the executive said, using industry shorthand for fraudulent charges that were rejected by credit card companies.

In its infancy, digital was advertising industry shorthand for "online".

They looked up each firm's return on assets (in financial industry shorthand, the "ROA"), using that as the measure of the company's financial performance.

Using industry shorthand for telephone calls, he added: "Every effort to use the cable wire for telephony has been less than successful.

"We treated every 'K' as something precious," he said, using industry shorthand for a kilobit, the standard measure for a piece of data on the Internet.

In that time, close to 10,000 new Bloomberg terminals - industry shorthand for a product that now is more software than hardware - have been installed worldwide.