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# vip

«vip» in Mova's school dictionary: **a «very important person»: someone famous or important…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

abbreviation (VIP, VIPs)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A VIP is a «very important person»: someone famous or important who gets special treatment, such as a celebrity, a leader or an honoured guest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vip/#m1)

2) «VIP» describes special areas, tickets or treatment for such people: VIP seats, VIP lounge, VIP pass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vip/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life it appears at concerts, sports events and parties; at school, a «VIP» might be a visiting guest or a pupil of the week. In maths, ticket problems may have VIP and standard prices. Phrases: «VIP treatment», «VIP area», «VIP tickets», «VIP pass».

### examples

- The VIPs sat in the front row at the concert. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vip/#x1)
- We got VIP treatment at Grandma's birthday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vip/#x2)
- The mayor was a VIP guest at sports day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vip/#x3)
- VIP tickets cost £50 and standard tickets cost £20. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vip/#x4)
- Only people with a VIP pass could go backstage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vip/#x5)
- I was class VIP this week and fed the fish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vip/#x6)

### note

Always in capitals: VIP; plural VIPs. Said as letters «vee-eye-pee». Use «a VIP» (a vee sound). Not a word on its own in lower case.

### In the corpora

- [So they piled cushions on the floor and called it the VIP section, and suddenly everyone wanted it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/399-left-out-without-a-console/15/)
- [How you name a place, like calling the floor the VIP section, can change how it feels to sit there.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/399-left-out-without-a-console/29/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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