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Meaning of D.O.B. | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Examples

“A request for a change in social security records dated 1/21/42 showing plaintiff’s D. O. B. as 3/11/11.”
“Dave Wilcock had already done a 10-27 through the sheriff’s office and collected Story’s driver’s license vitals, but she repeated her request for his date of birth. […] She wrote in large block letters JOHN HUNTINGTON STORY and added his D.O.B.”
““Chocolate the Moose was born on April 27, 1993,” sighs Rebecca, an 8-year-old. “That means this year he gets retired.” Like all Beanie Babies, Chocolate comes with a heart-shaped name tag that includes his D.O.B. and a little personal history in the form of a four-line bit of doggerel.”
““Here’s his D.O.B., right there.” She highlighted the numbers. “Twelve thirteen, 1982.” She twisted in her chair to look at me. “And if my math is correct, that would make him nineteen next month.””
“Not to mention he does not know his actual date of birth, because when he came with another family (through immigration his official parents in England. He does not have any contact now. He doesn’t know where they live, are they alive or dead) in 1959, he had to make up his D.O.B. on the Bangladesh passport application form.”
“If we say Saiakali Parao was 20 years of age when Taylor came in 1938, his date of birth would be approximately 1918, so by the genealogical method of dating the ‘Time of Darkness’ occurred between the range of 1828-1858. That is: S. Parao d.o.b. 1918 J. Taylor came when he was 20. That is 1938, now he is about 56 , 1974. Yake d.o.b. 1888 / Warenge d.o.b. 1858 Taipu d.o.b. 1828 The darkness occurred in range of 1828-1858: Tendepane d.o.b. 1798 If I do the same to calculate the date of birth for each informant using the average of a 30 year period back to 3 or 4 or 5 steps from the informant’s age in 1974, then I come up with ranges of periods.”
“When it came to completing the forms, Cambridge required to be given a date of birth for each candidate. This student genuinely did not know his d.o.b. so I told him he had better choose one.”
“His d.o.b. is based on the 1838 census, the ages of his siblings in the 1871 census, […]”
“Because what the big world does not know is that the conditions of the Ph.D. bursary which Harry applied for said you had to be under twenty-six to apply, and Harry had been twenty-six for several months. So what did he do? Simple. He went for the grand, big lie: he knocked six months off his life, just like that. He expanded each of his digging stints by an easy little month, and, with the connivance of some well-disposed lady digger, he promoted himself from bog-standard Digging Volunteer to official Site Assistant and bumped his d.o.b. six months forward.”
“Submitter H023 has Druscilla’s d.o.b. as 07 April 1802.”
“So, your d.o.b. is twenty-seventh of June 1989 then.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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