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IDB

Specialty Definition: IDB

DomainDefinition

Census

(Inter-American Development Bank) Established 1959. Promotes the investment of public and private capital in a specific region for development purposes. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: IDB

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "IDB."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: IDB

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

IDB

DanishIntegreret informationsbehandlingComputing

IDB

DutchRaad voor Industriele OntwikkelingN/A

IDB

EnglishInter-dealer-brokerN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: IDB

Synonyms by domain: Import Duties Bill (business, law), Industrial Development Board (public administration, economics), Insurance Development Bureau (insurance), Interamerican Development Bank (economics, finance), Inter-American Development Bank (finance, statistics), inter-dealer broker (finance), inter-dealer-broker, Internal Drainage Board (food & agriculture), International Peace Bureau (politics & international affaires, social sciences), Inverted data base (computing), Irish Dairy Board (food & agriculture), Islamic Development Bank (finance), Israel Discount Bank.

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Commercial Usage: IDB

DomainTitle

References

  • IDB Holding Corporation Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Reforming Health and Education: The World Bank, the Idb, and Complex Institutuinal Change (Policy Essay, No. 26) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: IDB

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Applications can be obtained at the IDB service center, and must be accompanied by a copy of the import permit. (references)

The project will be financed through ADB, IDB and the Kuwait Fund. A funding of USD 160.6 million is still required to meet the budget targets. (references)

In FY1999 the IDB issued 390 certificates for exemption from import duties and 994 certificates for tax credits, with a total value of USD$123 million and $157 million, respectively. (references)

Economic History

Guyana

During March to May 2001 the stakeholders, with assistance from IDB, developed a 10-year Strategic Plan. (references)

Guyana

Most large-scale government projects are financed by international lending institutions, with the IDB as the largest donor. (references)

Brazil

However, portions of major projects financed by IDB may not require bidding where local Brazilian counterpart funding is involved. (references)

Political Economy

HONDURAS

Waiver requests were recently approved by the IMF, IDB, and World Bank for non-performance in this area. (references)

Trade

Indonesia

In additions, the IDB is planning to give loans to Bank Mandiri for export financing. (references)

El Salvador

The IDB, through the Banco Multisectorial de Inversiones, offers credit to small businesses. (references)

Travel

Peru

The Government of Peru aims to invest $175 million in the construction and rehabilitation for 2001. Approximately $55 million will come from the Public Treasury and $120 million from international institutions such as IDB, Corporacion Andina de Fomento (CAF), World Bank and Japan's Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: IDB

"IDB" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 43.02% of the time. "IDB" is used about 86 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)43.02%3756,631
Noun (proper)34.88%3063,341
Noun (common)16.28%1493,893
Lexical Verb (base form)5.81%5157,705
                    Total100.00%86N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: IDB

CountryName
Israel

IDB Development Corporation Limited

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: IDB

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

idb

90

bank idb

6

bisew.org idb

6

idb pinkpt.com

4

384 4 idb level

3

384 debug idb

3

file idb

3

credit federal idb iic union

3

idb movie

2

idb population pyramid

2

credit idb union

2

idb neopets

2

battlepedia idb

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: IDB

Language Translations for "IDB"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

name-give-up-IDB (name give-up IDB). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

naam-bekendmakend IDB (name give-up IDB). (various references)

   

French

  

IDB non confidentiel (name give-up IDB). (various references)

   

German

  

IDB,der seinen Namen preisgibt (name give-up IDB). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μη εμπιστευτικός IDB (name give-up IDB). (various references)

   

Italian

  

IDB rivelando il nome delle parti (name give-up IDB). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

idbay

   

Portuguese

  

corretor "name give-up". (various references)

   

Spanish

  

IDB no confidencial (name give-up IDB). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: IDB

Derivations

Words containing "IDB": midbrain, midbrains, tidbit, tidbits. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: IDB

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: bid, dib.

Words within the letters "b-d-i"

-1 letter: bi, id.

 Words containing the letters "b-d-i"
 

+1 letter: bide, bids, bind, bird, dibs, drib.

 

+2 letters: abide, bedim, biddy, bided, bider, bides, bidet, bield, bifid, biked, bindi, binds, biped, bipod, birds, blind, bovid, braid, bride, build, cebid, debit, dhobi, dobie, dribs, gibed, imbed, jibed, rabid, rebid, tabid, unbid.

 

+3 letters: abided, abider, abides, babied, baddie, bailed, baited, bandit, bardic, bedims, bedrid, bedsit, beduin, begird, behind, belied, beside, betide, biased, bibbed, bidden, bidder, biders, bidets, biding, bields, biffed, bifold, bilged, bilked, billed, binder, bindis, bindle, binged, binned, bipeds, bipods, birded, birder, birdie, birled, birred, bitted, blinds, bodice, bodied, bodies, bodily, boding, bodkin, boiled, bolide, boride, bovids, braids, briard, bribed, bridal, brides, bridge, bridle, brined, bromid, budgie, builds, burdie, buried, busied, cebids, ceboid, cuboid, debits, debris, dhobis, dibbed, dibber, dibble, dibbuk, diobol, disbar, disbud, dobbin, dobies, dubbin, edible, fibbed, forbid, gibbed, hybrid, ibidem, imbeds, imbody, imbued, inbred, indaba, jibbed, libido, limbed, midrib, morbid, nibbed, outbid, rebids, rebind, ribald, riband, ribbed, rubied, tidbit, turbid, unbind, upbind, verbid.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: IDB


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

49 44 42

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..    -..    -...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01000100 01000010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#68 &#66

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 0044 0042

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

433836

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INDEX

1. Synonyms
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Names: Company Usage
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Abbreviations
9. Acronyms
10. Derivations
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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