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# gp

«gp» in Mova's school dictionary: **GP stands for general practitioner: a family doctor who…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun, abbreviation (a GP, GPs)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) GP stands for general practitioner: a family doctor who sees people for all kinds of illness at a local surgery or clinic, and sends them to specialists when needed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gp/#m1)

2) GP can also stand for Grand Prix, a big motor race. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gp/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life you book an appointment with your GP for a cough, a rash, or a check-up; the GP may write a prescription. In the USA people say "family doctor" or "primary care doctor". In safety lessons, pupils learn: for an emergency ring the emergency number, not the GP. Phrases: see your GP, the GP surgery, ring the GP, GP appointment.

### examples

- Mum took me to the GP because of my earache. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gp/#x1)
- The GP gave me a prescription for medicine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gp/#x2)
- I have a GP appointment at the surgery after school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gp/#x3)
- Our GP knows our whole family. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gp/#x4)
- If it's an emergency, call an ambulance, not the GP. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gp/#x5)
- Lewis Hamilton won the Brazilian GP. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gp/#x6)

### note

Written in capitals: GP; say "jee-pee". Countable: a GP, the GPs. In the UK the doctor's place is called a "surgery" even though no operations happen there.

### In the corpora

- [When grown-ups are ill, they usually see the GP, the family doctor at the local surgery.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/20-the-doctor-and-the-chemist/0/)
- [In an emergency you ring 999, not the GP.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/20-the-doctor-and-the-chemist/7/)
- [They settle when growing stops, and a GP can help meanwhile.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/40-growing-and-sport/4/)
- [A blister that becomes red, hot, swollen or full of yellow pus may be infected and needs a pharmacist or GP.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/49-blisters-astro-burns-and-nosebleeds-mid-match/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «gp» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gp/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.