CPD

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Proper noun

CPD

  1. (law enforcement) Initialism of Chicago Police Department.
    • 2024 April 24, Family of Chicago man fatally shot by police files federal civil rights lawsuit against city and tactical officers, CNN‎:
      “Defendant Officers violated numerous laws and CPD policies during their encounter with Dexter. The initial stop was unlawful and pretextual. Defendant Officers had no reasonable suspicion that Dexter violated any law, and they falsely stated otherwise in official CPD reports,” the suit states.
  2. Initialism of Central Propaganda Department, a CCP division responsible for spreading CCP ideology.
    • 2022 May 5, Helen Raleigh, “Biden's disinformation board is authoritarian and reminds me of my life in China”, in Fox News‎:
      The CPD decides what books, movies, music, TV shows, and other information the Chinese people can access. It is known to actively spread misinformation and revise history, so the Communist Party and its leadership are always cast in the most favorable light.

Noun

CPD (countable and uncountable, plural CPDs)

  1. Initialism of critical point drying.
    • 1993 October, Brian V. Brown, “A further chemical alternative to critical-point-drying for preparing small (or large) flies”, in Fly Times, number 11:
      Specimens come out exactly like CPD-prepared specimens, ready for SEM or for general mounting for the collection.
  2. Initialism of continuing professional development.
  3. (astronomy, countable) Abbreviation of circumplanetary disk.
    Coordinate term: PPD
  4. (obstetrics) Initialism of cephalopelvic disproportion.

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