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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/d. accounting 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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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Lysons' Magna Britannia, an Account of the Counties of Beds, Berks, Bucks, Cambridge, Cheshire, Cornwall, Cumberland, Derby, and Devon, many plates, 6 vols, 4to. hf. bd. neat. 3l. 13s. 6d. 1806-22.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 109, November 29, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

The budget plan sees production of liquid hydrocarbons unchanged from 2026 at 1.8 million barrels a day, while crude oil exports are expected to fall to 426,600 b/d from 522,400 b/d this year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Before the war in Iran, the International Energy Agency estimated that out of 3.4 million b/d in OPEC’s spare capacity, the Saudis held 1.85 million b/d and the U.A.E. held 700,000 b/d.

From Barron's ● May 4, 2026

U.S. inventory data added upside pressure with large draws in crude and products stocks and a record 6.4 million b/d in crude exports.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026

The Abu Dhabi Crude Oil Pipeline supplies the U.A.E.’s large loading port of Fujairah with a capacity of 1.8 million b/d.

From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026

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

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

“Mommie Dearest” was a worldwide phenomenon, and it inspired Davis’s oldest daughter, B.D.

From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2017

He graduated B.D. in 1533, accompanied Bishop Barlow on his embassy to Scotland in 1535, and was made prior of St Oswald’s at Nostell near Pontefract.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" by Various

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, I was looking forward to winter vacation.

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

In a lateral projection of this mass of mesoblast 13 lies a small, circular opening, the bile duct, bd.

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

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