electronic data processing

American  

noun

1. EDP.

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Etymology

Origin of electronic data processing

First recorded in 1960–65

Example Sentences

It is now the world's largest and most sophisticated manufacturer of automatic control systems, turning out 13,000 products so diverse that they encompass a 600 microswitch and a $3,000,000 electronic data processing system.

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It is the first graduate business school to stress behavioral sciences, higher mathematics electronic data processing and management simulation exercises as basic for managerial careers.

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The Methodist Church utilizes electronic data processing to keep tabs on its 37,600 U.S. parishes.

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This, said Dillon, is just the first step in a $3,000,000 plan that within 20 months would add 205 new agents, plus modern electronic data processing and more scientific detection equipment.

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For the past three years, one-tenth of new U.S. investment in plant and equipment has gone into computers, enough to make electronic data processing the nation's fastest-growing major industry.

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