PD

Initialism of Progressive Democrats, a former political party disbanded in 2008.

Proper noun

  1. Initialism of Progressive Democrats, a former political party disbanded in 2008.
  2. Initialism of Port Dickson: a town and district of Malaysia.
    • 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. - 2016, Salleh Mohd...
    • ""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," - 2018 October 1, Eileen Ng, quoting Oh Ei Sun, “Who can dent...
    • 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," - 2018 October 13, Hazlin...
  3. Abbreviation of Southwest Papua: a province of Indonesia.

Noun

  1. Initialism of police department.
  2. Initialism of phase detector.
  3. Initialism of public domain.
    • It is forbidden to market the software although PD libraries are entitled to charge for such supporting costs as administration, distribution etc. - 1988, The Linguist: Journal of the Institute of Linguists, page 105:
  4. Initialism of peritoneal dialysis.
  5. Initialism of penile duplication.
  6. Abbreviation of period (full stop) punctuation mark, used in communication systems without punctuation (e.g., telegrams).
    • ... WILFORD J. WILLY CMA SR GRADE LIEUTENANT AND JOSEPH P. KENNEDY SR GRADE LIEUTENANT CMA BOTH USNR CMA WERE KILLED PD COMMANDER SMITH ... - 1944, telegram to Gen. Carl Andrew Spaatz from Gen. Jimmy Doolittle; Edward...
  7. Initialism of professional development.
  8. Initialism of public defender.
  9. Initialism of Parkinson’s disease.
  10. Initialism of panic disorder.
  11. Initialism of personality disorder.
    • 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...
  12. Initialism of pupillary distance.

Forms

PDs

Phrase

  1. Initialism of position doubtful.

    Coordinate Terms: ED

Related

PLL PFD