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BCD

American  
  1. Military. bad conduct discharge.

  2. Computers. binary-coded decimal system.


BCD British  

abbreviation

  1. binary-coded decimal

"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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Its name is BCD Tofu House, and it bills itself as “The House That Tofu Built.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2025

In a report issued in August, Mike Eggleton, director of research and intelligence at BCD Travel, had a similar take on the immediate future for business travel.

From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2022

Connor Bragger, 18, from Redditch, was given BCD last Thursday, and needed a BBB to get into a journalism course at Sheffield.

From BBC • Aug. 17, 2020

The diver must vent air from the BCD or risk an uncontrolled ascent that could rupture the lungs.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

Interest as a Residual Amount.—The area BCD in our former figure represents the difference between the total product of an industry and the wages paid to laborers.

From Essentials of Economic Theory As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy by Clark, John Bates

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