Military and government jargon for a fitness report — the formal periodic evaluation of a service member's performance, conduct, and potential for advancement. Originally US military in origin, the term has bled into broader government and bureaucratic contexts where similar evaluation systems exist. A good fitrep can fast-track a career; a bad one can stall it. In naval culture especially, fitreps are taken extremely seriously.
He'd been sweating the fitrep for weeks, knowing his promotion board review was riding entirely on what his CO wrote.
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(originally, US, _, military) A fitness report.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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