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DDR

American  

abbreviation

  1. German Democratic Republic: official name of East Germany.


DDR British  

abbreviation

  1. Deutsche Demokratische Republik (the former East Germany; GDR)

"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

Etymology

Origin of DDR

From German D(eutsche) D(emokratische) R(epublik)

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ASML’s Fouquet said customers are ramping up to meet very tight supply both for HBM as well as the DDR chips that are used in PCs and laptops.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 28, 2026

Complicating things, Nvidia has shifted to using low-power DDR in its DGX GB300 to save on server electricity budgets.

From Barron's ● Dec. 19, 2025

"Playing DDR is always fun for me," he told BBC News, "so this challenge was best described as tediously joyful".

From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2025

Like Hans, she seems hugely invested in the “tired old state” of the DDR.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2023

Shuttered, too, was the DDR Museum located beneath the hotel, devoted to depicting daily life in the defunct communist German Democratic Republic.

From Slate ● Dec. 19, 2022

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