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CCD

American  

abbreviation

  1. Electronics. charge-coupled device.

  2. colony collapse disorder.

  3. Confraternity of Christian Doctrine.


CCD British  

abbreviation

  1. charge-coupled device

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Those who keep and study bees, as Jesse Plemons’s character does in the chilling sci-fi black comedy “Bugonia,” have paid a lot of attention to a phenomenon called colony collapse disorder, or CCD.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

Around one in a million people has CCD, meaning it has received little attention historically.

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2022

So I started the new year unencumbered by the need to attend CCD any longer.

From Salon • Dec. 29, 2022

He sent a message to a recent conference in the UK for people with CCD.

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2022

“What, the CCD, you mean? Why do they want her?”

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman