In plain English
This is a brief written name mark made from two key letters. It combines the first letter of a person's given name with the first letter of the family name. People use it as a shortened way to sign.
In context
Here, it requests the employee's initials, meaning the first letters of the employee's given name and family name written together as a short form of the employee's signature.
- Situation
- Completing employee onboarding, payroll setup, policies, and mandatory forms
- What it communicates
- requests the employee's abbreviated name mark in short signature boxes.
Meaning limits
This sense covers only that short written name mark, not a person's full written name.
Examples
“Priya Shah marked the sketch with her initials, P.S., rather than her full name.”
“After the change, the supervisor asked the employee to place her initials beside the corrected figure.”