| Acronym | Definition |
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| COPE | Congress of the People (South African ANC opposition party) |
| COPE | Committee on Political Education |
| COPE | Committee on Publication Ethics (UK) |
| COPE | Congress on Professional Education (American Library Association) |
| COPE | Cost of Poor Execution (business performance) |
| COPE | Corporate Owned, Personally Enabled (business strategy) |
| COPE | Committee on Professional Ethics (various organizations) |
| COPE | Certificate of Personal Effectiveness |
| COPE | Commission on Proprietary Education (Indiana) |
| COPE | Coalition of Progressive Electors (Vancouver, BC, Canada) |
| COPE | Challenging Outdoor Personal Experience (Boy Scouts of America) |
| COPE | Communications Opportunity, Promotion, and Enhancement Act of 2006 (US) |
| COPE | Coalition of Prison Evangelists (Euless, TX) |
| COPE | Cytokines Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia |
| COPE | Cadena de Ondas Populares Españolas (Spanish Popular Waves Station) |
| COPE | Committee on Public Enterprises (Sri Lanka) |
| COPE | Citizens Organized to Prepare for Emergencies (California) |
| COPE | Create Once, Publish Everywhere |
| COPE | Coastal Oregon Productivity Enhancement (Corvallis, OR) |
| COPE | Cooperative Orthotic and Prosthetic Enterprise (Vientiane, Laos provider of mobility devices to disabled) |
| COPE | Christ Offers Peace Everlasting |
| COPE | Custodian Of Postal Effects |
| COPE | Confederation of Organisers of Packaging Exhibitions (UK) |
| COPE | Council on Packaging in the Environment |
| COPE | Center for Overcoming Problem Eating |
| COPE | Construction, Occupancy, Protection, Exposure (property insurance) |
| COPE | Center for Occupational and Personalized Education (Michigan) |
| COPE | Coastal Ocean Probing Experiment |
| COPE | Citizens Option to Provide Energy |
| COPE | Currency Overprinting and Processing Equipment (US Bureau of Engraving and Printing) |
| COPE | Center of Protective Environment, Inc. |
| COPE | Connecting Our Paths Eternally (Melville, NY) |
| COPE | Communications Oriented Processing Equipment |
| COPE | Contingency Orbital Replacement Unit Protective Enclosure |
| COPE | Complimentary Primary Education |
| COPE | Corpo de Operações Especiais (Special Operations Corps, Brazil police) |
| COPE | Command Overview and Program Execution |
| COPE | Concentrate, Observe, Predict, Execute (AARP 55/Alive Mature Driving Class) |
| COPE | Control of Problem Equipment |