VDT
American-
video display terminal.
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Chiefly British. visual display terminal.
abbreviation
Example Sentences
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The nascent union cause scored a victory last week when legislators in Suffolk County, N.Y., enacted the first law in the U.S. to regulate VDT use in the workplace.
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Companies that have provided workers with VDT basics like more comfortable chairs and detachable keyboards and have introduced voluntary safety standards resent government intrusion.
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All the complaints of burning, eyestrain, headache, stinging, watery eyes connected with VDT use are valid claims.
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Concurs J. Donald Millar, director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health: "The VDT revolution has produced impressively few problems" for worker safety.
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"He's not alarmist or inflammatory," admits Bruce Dickerson, executive director of the Center for Office Technology, an industry-sponsored clearinghouse for information about VDT safety.
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