BDS

See also: bds, BDs, bdS, and bdš

Translingual

Symbol

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)

Usage notes

• As regards ISO 3166, this is an indeterminately reserved code, included as part of ISO 3166-1 due to its use in designating road vehicles under the 1949 Geneva Convention on Road Traffic, and is not endorsed for general use by the ISO. The general-purpose code for Barbados is BRB.
• This code is sometimes used in place of BBD for the Barbados dollar. However, this conflicts with the currency coding standardization rules in ISO 4217, as currency codes beginning with BD are reserved for Bangladesh, due to that being its ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code.

English

Proper noun

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.

Derived terms

• BDSer

Anagrams

• BS"D, BSD, DBS, DBs, SBD, sbd, sbd.