BLM

See also: blm and blm.

Translingual

Symbol

BLM

  1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for Saint Barthélemy since 2007.
    Synonym: BL (alpha-2)

English

Noun

BLM (uncountable)

  1. (pharmacology) Abbreviation of bleomycin.

Proper noun

BLM

  1. (US) Initialism of Bureau of Land Management: an agency within the United States Department of the Interior responsible for administering public lands, created in 1946.
    • 2018, Richard Powers, The Overstory, Vintage (2019), page 176:
      The latrines and community showers are sinful indulgences, compared to her BLM cabin, with its frigid sponge baths on the porch at night.
  2. Initialism of Black Lives Matter: an international human rights movement, originated in 2013 within the African-American community, which campaigns against violence and systemic racism towards black people.
    • 2024 [2023], Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, Vintage, →ISBN, page 60:
      But then came the 2020 Black Lives Matter uprisings. “My friends all told me I had to get back on Instagram and post pro-BLM,” she said, “or everyone would think I was racist”—this despite the fact that she had been participating in all the protests in her area, albeit in a quiet, behind-the-scenes way.

Derived terms

Phrase

BLM

  1. Initialism of black lives matter.
    Coordinate terms: WLM, ALM, PLM

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