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IDP

American  
  1. Computers. integrated data processing: the processing of information by systematic techniques that reduce human intervention to a minimum and that employ a language common to all the machines in the system.

  2. International Driving Permit.


IDP British  

abbreviation

  1. integrated data processing

"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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Jumpstarting Hope in Gaza, a coalition of Palestinian, Israeli, and international NGOs, is supporting Palestinian-run IDP camps with 12,000 people in the south of Gaza with goods and equipment.

From Salon Mar. 27, 2025

“Recent reports from our partners indicate that 20 children have died in recent weeks of malnutrition in that IDP camp,” she said.

From Seattle Times May 3, 2024

At least 150,000 internally displaced Rohingyas have been forced to live in IDP camps for the past decade.

From BBC Apr. 7, 2024

Investigators found aid diversion at all of the 55 IDP sites in Somalia from which they collected data, the report said.

From Reuters Sep. 19, 2023

Readily verbed as `blackhole': "That router is blackholing IDP packets."

From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.

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