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  • bd.
    bd.
    abbreviation
    board.
  • BD.
    BD.
    abbreviation
    (in Bahrain) dinar; dinars.
  • b/d
    b/d
    barrels per day.
  • B/D
    B/D
    bank draft.
  • B.D.
    B.D.
    abbreviation
    Bachelor of Divinity.
  • BD
    BD
    abbreviation
    Bachelor of Divinity
  • bd
    bd
    abbreviation
    board

bd.

1 American  

abbreviation

bds plural
  1. board.

  2. bond.

  3. bound.

  4. bundle.


BD. 2 American  

abbreviation

  1. (in Bahrain) dinar; dinars.


b/d 3 American  
  1. barrels per day.


B/D 4 American  
  1. bank draft.

  2. bills discounted.

  3. Accounting. brought down.


B.D. 5 American  

abbreviation

  1. Bachelor of Divinity.

  2. bank draft.

  3. bills discounted.


B/D 1 British  

abbreviation

  1. bank draft

  2. commerce bills discounted

  3. Also: b/daccounting brought down

"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

BD 2 British  

abbreviation

  1. Bachelor of Divinity

  2. commerce bills discounted

  3. Bangladesh (international car registration)

"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

bd 3 British  

abbreviation

  1. board

  2. insurance finance bond

"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

bd 4 British  

abbreviation

  1. Bangladesh

"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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The blueprint allows for average annual timber harvests of 1.2 billion bd. ft. -- less than one-third of the mid-'80s peak of 5 billion bd. ft. a year.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the far end of the spectrum was option one, nicknamed "Save-It-All" because it allowed for a minuscule 0.19 billion bd. ft. to be cut, and would have set aside all ancient forests.

From Time Magazine Archive

Price of the most popular grade of plywood jumped $4 per 1,000 bd. ft. in the week to $68.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the opposite end was option seven, which would have allowed 1.84 billion bd. ft. to be cut annually.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the supposed epoch of the extinction of the Lemnian fire in the time of Alexander, compare Buttmann, in the 'Museum der Alterhumswissenschaft', bd. i.,

From COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 by Humboldt, Alexander von

With the Strait of Hormuz effectively closed—and at least 12 million b/d shut in—it was a relatively painless time to make a move that would normally have been bearish for oil prices.

From Barron's May 4, 2026

The large withdrawal last week in U.S. crude stocks, and the record 6.4 million b/d in crude exports, added to concerns.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 30, 2026

Refineries “have returned from turnaround season rather quickly,” he adds, running at 90.8% of capacity compared with 86.5% a year ago, with crude inputs up by 461,000 b/d at 16.2 million b/d.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 12, 2026

This produced an investment boom, and oil production soared to more than 3.3 million b/d by 1998.

From Barron's Dec. 19, 2025

Oil was discovered off the southern coast in 1986 with production reaching 54,000 b/d in 1990 and expected to increase in the years ahead.

From The 1991 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

To get from one end of station to the other, you can use the B/D Line subway.

From Washington Post Jan. 10, 2023

For a reciprocal test, we used the same H. melpomene races as the ingroup to compare with rayed Heliconius timareta florencia at the B/D region.

From Nature Jul. 4, 2012

In the wake of all the Taylor/Matty drama, B.D.

From Slate Jun. 6, 2023

And lastly, B.D. is seen without his helmet for the first time ever — as astonishing to longtime readers as the missing limb itself.

From Washington Post Nov. 27, 2020

The character Dr. Henry Wu, who first appeared in "Jurassic Park" and was played by actor B.D.

From Fox News Aug. 19, 2020

It also helps that these characters are played by the highly likable B.D.

From Salon Jan. 1, 2019

He was educated at Gloucester Hall, Oxford, where he took his degrees in arts, and his degree of B.D., at Jesus College, in 1597. 

From A Biographical Sketch of some of the Most Eminent Individuals which the Principality of Wales has produced since the Reformation by Williams, Robert

They later got personalised number plates with the first two letters, BD, representing Mr Dack's initials and 'PEG' for their mum's nickname.

From BBC Nov. 3, 2025

Identification and treatment of new and unremitting mood episodes is essential for limiting the impact of BD on patients' lives.

From Science Daily Nov. 25, 2024

“Perhaps the most insidious result of inflating BD diagnoses, and the one which may be of most concern to social workers, is the masking of oppressive social conditions,” he writes.

From Slate Sep. 29, 2024

That is the fate of the millions of frogs who have suffered from Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, or BD for short.

From Salon Apr. 6, 2024

BD, Momma was smiling at me and acting like I was growing up.

From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée

The compound works by binding to the cytochrome bd complex, a protein system that bacteria rely on for respiration and survival during infection.

From Science Daily Apr. 21, 2026

Each of these variants successfully blocked the cytochrome bd complex and halted bacterial growth.

From Science Daily Apr. 21, 2026

“Happy bd mama,” she wrote in the check’s memo field.

From Seattle Times Jul. 29, 2021

Mr. Bender responded bluntly: “get sandy on bd tell your brother we need help now.”

From New York Times Mar. 1, 2012

Into this wide part of the duodenum, 3 or 4 mm. from the pylorus, opens the bile duct, bd.

From Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator by Reese, C. M.

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