Sop
noun
A thing given or done to make something else more acceptable or less severe.
The pay raise was just a sop to the staff's demands for better working conditions.
Often appears as...
- a sop to
- a mere sop
noun
A piece of solid food, such as bread, used to soak up liquid.
She dipped a sop into her soup.
Often appears as...
- a sop in
- a sop of bread
verb
To soak or fill thoroughly with liquid.
He sopped his bread in the gravy.
Often appears as...
- sop up
- sop in
abbreviation
Standard Operating Procedure.
The company's SOP ensures consistency in product quality.
Often appears as...
- sop for
- sop of
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A thing given or done to make something else more acceptable or less severe.
The pay raise was just a sop to the staff's demands for better working conditions.
Often appears as...
- a sop to
- a mere sop
noun
A piece of solid food, such as bread, used to soak up liquid.
She dipped a sop into her soup.
Often appears as...
- a sop in
- a sop of bread
verb
To soak or fill thoroughly with liquid.
He sopped his bread in the gravy.
Often appears as...
- sop up
- sop in
abbreviation
Standard Operating Procedure.
The company's SOP ensures consistency in product quality.
Often appears as...
- sop for
- sop of
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Placating Gesture
Used to describe minor concessions or superficial measures given to satisfy demands.
Discount coupons were offered as a sop to the unhappy customers.
Pro Tip 2/3Critically Insufficient
A sop is often seen as inadequate compared to what is actually needed or expected.
The manager's apology felt like a sop and didn't mend the team's low morale.
Pro Tip 3/3Token Offering
Highlighting triviality, 'sop' can imply that the offering is symbolic rather than of tangible benefit.
Free coffee in the office is nice but it's a sop and doesn't replace fair pay.
Pro Tip 1/3Placating Gesture
Used to describe minor concessions or superficial measures given to satisfy demands.
Discount coupons were offered as a sop to the unhappy customers.
Pro Tip 2/3Critically Insufficient
A sop is often seen as inadequate compared to what is actually needed or expected.
The manager's apology felt like a sop and didn't mend the team's low morale.
Pro Tip 3/3Token Offering
Highlighting triviality, 'sop' can imply that the offering is symbolic rather than of tangible benefit.
Free coffee in the office is nice but it's a sop and doesn't replace fair pay.
Pro Tip 1/3Placating Gesture
Used to describe minor concessions or superficial measures given to satisfy demands.
Discount coupons were offered as a sop to the unhappy customers.
Pro Tip 2/3Critically Insufficient
A sop is often seen as inadequate compared to what is actually needed or expected.
The manager's apology felt like a sop and didn't mend the team's low morale.
Pro Tip 3/3Token Offering
Highlighting triviality, 'sop' can imply that the offering is symbolic rather than of tangible benefit.
Free coffee in the office is nice but it's a sop and doesn't replace fair pay.
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Video examples
Saving Hawaii’s Birds...
So if we don't have a healthy forest sopping up all the rain that's pounding down on the tops of these mountain tops, we have no water control, we have no water management, we have catastrophic flooding, we also have no filtration of water to provide drinking water and recharging of the aquifers.
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Paul MacCready: Nature...
think broadly or creative. They can be. Our school systems are very flawed and do not reward you for the things that are important in life or for the survival of civilization; they reward you for a lot of learning and sopping up stuff.
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Are food preservatives...
Like the compounds in smoke, these sop up free radicals and stave off rancid flavors that can develop in foods like oils, cheese, and cereal. Other antioxidants like citric acid and ascorbic acid help cut produce keep its color
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Ultimate Survival...
sooner than that would have liked but it's what the situation required we were all pretty wet we're all very hungry this morning we had a bush wagon immediately we got sucked sopping wet a
Video examples
Saving Hawaii’s Birds...
So if we don't have a healthy forest sopping up all the rain that's pounding down on the tops of these mountain tops, we have no water control, we have no water management, we have catastrophic flooding, we also have no filtration of water to provide drinking water and recharging of the aquifers.
Video examples
Paul MacCready: Nature...
think broadly or creative. They can be. Our school systems are very flawed and do not reward you for the things that are important in life or for the survival of civilization; they reward you for a lot of learning and sopping up stuff.
Video examples
Are food preservatives...
Like the compounds in smoke, these sop up free radicals and stave off rancid flavors that can develop in foods like oils, cheese, and cereal. Other antioxidants like citric acid and ascorbic acid help cut produce keep its color
Video examples
Ultimate Survival...
sooner than that would have liked but it's what the situation required we were all pretty wet we're all very hungry this morning we had a bush wagon immediately we got sucked sopping wet a
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Quote examples
Dawn Foster
British Journalist
Many regard freemasonry as an 18th-century boys' club, all funny aprons and comedic handshakes. That's good for the masons themselves, but it's our mistake. The most senior figures are listed, but surely that's a sop because, all the while, the vast majority of lay members, 'the brotherhood,' remain anonymous.
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Preity Zinta
Indian Actress
If women want to be treated equally, then they can't ask for sops and whine about not being treated equally. All I'll say is no guts, no glory for men or women.
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Jim Rogers
American Businessman
Tough times helped many commodities producers become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost-cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up.
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Will Self
English Author
As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.
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Christopher Plummer
Canadian Actor
They realized I was alive again, even though I was playing an old, dying sop.
Quote examples
Dawn Foster
British Journalist
Many regard freemasonry as an 18th-century boys' club, all funny aprons and comedic handshakes. That's good for the masons themselves, but it's our mistake. The most senior figures are listed, but surely that's a sop because, all the while, the vast majority of lay members, 'the brotherhood,' remain anonymous.
Quote examples
Preity Zinta
Indian Actress
If women want to be treated equally, then they can't ask for sops and whine about not being treated equally. All I'll say is no guts, no glory for men or women.
Quote examples
Jim Rogers
American Businessman
Tough times helped many commodities producers become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost-cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up.
Quote examples
Will Self
English Author
As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.
Quote examples
Christopher Plummer
Canadian Actor
They realized I was alive again, even though I was playing an old, dying sop.
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