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A very important person (VIP or V.I.P.) or personage is a person who is accorded special privileges due to their high social rank,
A very important person (VIP or V.I.P.) or personage is a person who is accorded special privileges due to their high social rank, status
Status (Latin plural: ''statūs''), is a state, condition, or situation, and may refer to:
* Status (law)
** Legal status, in law
** Political status, in international law
** Small entity status, in patent law
** Status conference
** Status c ...
, influence
Influence may refer to:
*Social influence, in social psychology, influence in interpersonal relationships
**Minority influence, when the minority affect the behavior or beliefs of the majority
Science and technology
*Sphere of influence (astrody ...
, or importance
Importance is a Property (philosophy), property of entities that matter or make a difference. For example, World War II was an important event and Albert Einstein was an important person because of how they affected the world. There are disagreem ...
. The term was not common until sometime after World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
when it was popularised by Royal Air Force
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the Air force, air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. It was formed towards the end of the World War I, First World War on 1 April 1918, on the merger of t ...
pilots.
Examples include celebrities
Celebrity is a condition of fame and broad public recognition of a person or group due to the attention given to them by mass media. The word is also used to refer to famous individuals. A person may attain celebrity status by having great w ...
, heads of state
A head of state is the public persona of a sovereign state.#Foakes, Foakes, pp. 110–11 "
or he head of state
He or HE may refer to:
Language
* He (letter), the fifth letter of the Semitic abjads
* He (pronoun), a pronoun in Modern English
* He (kana), one of the Japanese kana (へ in hiragana and ヘ in katakana)
* Ge (Cyrillic), a Cyrillic letter cal ...
being an embodiment of the State itself or representative of its international persona." The name given to the office of head of sta ...government
A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a State (polity), state.
In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive (government), execu ...
, other high-ranking politicians
A politician is a person who participates in policy-making processes, usually holding an elective position in government. Politicians represent the people, make decisions, and influence the formulation of public policy. The roles or duties tha ...
, or any other socially notable person who receives special treatment for any reason. The special treatment usually involves separation from common people
A commoner, also known as the ''common man'', ''commoners'', the ''common people'' or the ''masses'', was in earlier use an ordinary person in a community or nation who did not have any significant social status, especially a member of neithe ...
, and a higher level of comfort or service.
Commerce
In some cases, such as withticket
Ticket or tickets may refer to:
Slips of paper
* Lottery ticket
* Parking ticket, a ticket confirming that the parking fee was paid (and the time of the parking start)
* Toll ticket, a slip of paper used to indicate where vehicles entered a to ...
s, VIP may be used as a title in a similar way to ''premium'' or ''exclusive.'' Usually in airports, VIP tickets can be purchased by anyone, but still meaning separation from other customers, own security checks etc.
VIP airport terminals may be used by foreign ministers, ambassadors
An ambassador is an official envoy, especially a high-ranking diplomat who represents a state and is usually accredited to another sovereign state or to an international organization as the resident representative of their own government or so ...
or high-ranking government personalities, provided that they are officially invited by the receiving country's government.
Sometimes, the term ''very very important person'' (''VVIP'' or ''V.V.I.P.'') is also used, especially with reference to VIPs with very high socioeconomic rank or purchasing power
Purchasing power refers to the amount of products and services available for purchase with a certain currency unit. For example, if you took one unit of cash to a store in the 1950s, you could buy more products than you could now, showing that th ...
. It is used especially when anyone can buy VIP treatment, to distinguish people with especially high requirements. ''V.V.V.I.P.'' (or VVVIP) can denote even another, higher level of exclusivity.
See also
*High-net-worth individual
In the financial services industry, a high-net-worth individual (HNWI) is a person who maintains liquid assets at or above a certain threshold. Typically the criterion is that the person's financial assets (excluding their primary residence) are ...
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