A very important person of high-ranking or spending power, used especially when anyone can obtain VIP treatment, to distinguish people with especially high requirements.

(psychiatry) A personality disorder characterized by an extreme pattern of concern with orderliness, perfectionism, excessive attention to details, mental and interpersonal control

(psychiatry) A proposed personality disorder characterized by a pervasive pattern of negativistic attitudes and passive resistance to demands for adequate performance in social and occupational situations.

(psychiatry) A proposed personality disorder characterized by a pervasive pattern of self-defeating behavior, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts.

plural of person of ordinary skill in the art

(US, law) In United States patent law, the hypothetical individual whose likely knowledge determines whether an improvement on existing technology would be obvious, and therefore not patentable.

(Britain) A school subject in which students are taught important facts of life not covered in other subjects, such as sexual relationships, drug abuse and so on.

plural of person having ordinary skill in the art

(UK, law) Any hypothetical person used in a legal test related to patents

A person will continue to display the inherent qualities of the place from which they grew up, or spent a significant amount of, in.