BDS

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See also: bds, BDs, bdS, and bdš

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BDS

  1. (international standards) Indeterminately reserved ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for Barbados.
    Synonym: BRB (for general use)
  2. (international standards) Unofficial non-ISO 4217 currency code for the Barbados dollar.
    Synonym: BBD (ISO 4217)

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BDS

  1. Initialism of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions.
    • 2023 December 14, Kate Connolly, “Award ceremony suspended after writer compares Gaza to Nazi-era Jewish ghettos”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
      In the essay, Gessen, who uses they, criticised Germany’s unequivocal support of Israel, drawing attention to the Bundestag’s 2019 resolution condemning the Israel boycott movement BDS as antisemitic and quoting a Jewish critic of Germany’s politics of Holocaust remembrance as saying memory culture had “gone haywire”.
  2. (US, politics, slang, derogatory) Initialism of Bush Derangement Syndrome.

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