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Meaning of PD | Babel Free

Noun CEFR A2

Definitions

  1. Initialism of Progressive Democrats, a former political party disbanded in 2008.
    Ireland, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  2. Initialism of police department.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  3. Initialism of Port Dickson: a town and district of Malaysia.
    Malaysia, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  4. Initialism of phase detector.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  5. Abbreviation of Southwest Papua: a province of Indonesia.
    abbreviation, alt-of
  6. Initialism of public domain.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  7. Initialism of peritoneal dialysis.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  8. Initialism of penile duplication.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  9. Abbreviation of period (full stop) punctuation mark, used in communication systems without punctuation (e.g., telegrams).
    US, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable
  10. Initialism of professional development.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  11. Initialism of public defender.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  12. Initialism of Parkinson’s disease.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  13. Initialism of panic disorder.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  14. Initialism of personality disorder.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  15. Initialism of pupillary distance.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  16. Initialism of process deviation.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  17. Initialism of power delivery.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  18. Initialism of partial discharge.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  19. Initialism of pole dance.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  20. Initialism of program director.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  21. Initialism of producer director.
    South-Korea, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  22. Initialism of performance director.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  23. Initialism of Progressive Democrat.
    Ireland, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, historical, initialism, uncountable
  24. Initialism of positive deviance.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
  25. Initialism of prosecutorial discretion.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable

Examples

“It is forbidden to market the software although PD libraries are entitled to charge for such supporting costs as administration, distribution etc.”
“... WILFORD J. WILLY CMA SR GRADE LIEUTENANT AND JOSEPH P. KENNEDY SR GRADE LIEUTENANT CMA BOTH USNR CMA WERE KILLED PD COMMANDER SMITH ...”
“Board and Fritzon found that three of 11 personality disorders (PDs) were actually commoner in managers than in disturbed criminals. The first was histrionic PD, entailing superficial charm, insincerity, egocentricity and manipulativeness.”
“[…] Simon Jones, the former British Cycling endurance coach who is now Sky head of performance support and innovation, is to take over as performance director of Australian Cycling from April. […] “It’s been my ambition for some time to be a PD of a cycling programme and there aren’t many of them. I’ve been in Australia before so it was a natural decision.””
“The Progressive Democrats (PDs) are the junior partner in the governing coalition led by Bertie Ahern and his Fianna Fail party. […] Mr McDowell, a formidable barrister with a reputation as a political hothead, was elected leader of the PDs unopposed […].”
“The Sternins take an unorthodox approach to problem-solving known as positive deviance, or P.D., which builds on years of their health work in poor countries in Southeast Asia. / A P.D. program aims to identify individuals within small communities who have devised clever coping strategies to avoid problems afflicting their neighbors.”
“This qualitative approach was used in re-vitalising Port Dickson (PD) as a leading beach tourism destination for Malaysia. PD was a top beach resort tourism destination in her glory days of 1990s.”
“""Isa has widespread grassroot support in his native Negeri Sembilan, among all the candidates, he is a local PD boy. The others all came out of nowhere,"”
“Ms Lau said she hoped "PD will be transformed as promised in so many ways", using the common moniker for the seaside town. "It is good […] to develop PD. That is what everyone in PD wants,"”

CEFR level

A2
Elementary
This word is part of the CEFR A2 vocabulary — elementary level.

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