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CCD

American  

abbreviation

  1. Electronics. charge-coupled device.

  2. colony collapse disorder.

  3. Confraternity of Christian Doctrine.


CCD British  

abbreviation

  1. charge-coupled device

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Those who keep and study bees, as Jesse Plemons’s character does in the chilling sci-fi black comedy “Bugonia,” have paid a lot of attention to a phenomenon called colony collapse disorder, or CCD.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

So I started the new year unencumbered by the need to attend CCD any longer.

From Salon • Dec. 29, 2022

For her son Jaiden, CCD has had an even more serious effect.

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2022

By 2011, driven by an aspirational Indian middle class, there were more than 1,000 CCD cafes, ushering in a new coffee culture.

From BBC • Mar. 19, 2022

Oakley Street had three vessels—the boat Bud Schlesinger had hired from Tilbury, and two gyptian narrowboats, with Nugent in one and Papadimitriou in the other—whereas the CCD had seven, including four fast powerboats.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

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