Definition of "EAP"

EAP

noun
countable and uncountable, plural EAPs
1. Initialism of Employee Assistance Program.
2. (authentication, Internet) Initialism of Extensible Authentication Protocol.
3. (finance) Initialism of Electronic Account Payment.
4. (linguistics) Initialism of English for Academic Purposes.
  Quotations
  EAP research has developed advanced methods for producing corpus-informed vocabulary resources, but these have yet to be fully leveraged to promote disciplinary literacy within the secondary school context
  2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, page 105