0 abbreviation for personal protective equipment: equipment and clothing that protects people from health risks at work:
PPE must be worn when working with compressed air.
Use protective gloves and other PPE, for example when sharps are involved.
1 abbreviation for philosophy, politics, and economics or politics, philosophy, and economics: a degree subject at some universities :
They were joined by around 20 police officers who were dressed head to toe in PPE .
All parts of the UK right now are facing supply challenges on PPE.
Some key workers like NHS staff are wearing PPE, such as masks, face visors, gloves and gowns.
They go to university, study PPE, get a researcher's job, then become a politician.
His PPE degree from Oxford makes him one of the most inappropriately qualified blokes ever to play sport for a living.
