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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

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

From BBC Dec. 29, 2022

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

From Salon 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

“Unless it’s not the CCD behind it. Then they won’t be afraid and it won’t be censored.”

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

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