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IDP

American  
  1. Computers. integrated data processing: the processing of information by systematic techniques that reduce human intervention to a minimum and that employ a language common to all the machines in the system.

  2. International Driving Permit.


IDP British  

abbreviation

  1. integrated data processing

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It is comprised of the British Council, the UK's national cultural and educational organisation; Cambridge University Press and Assessments; and IDP, a large Australian education company.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026

Jumpstarting Hope in Gaza, a coalition of Palestinian, Israeli, and international NGOs, is supporting Palestinian-run IDP camps with 12,000 people in the south of Gaza with goods and equipment.

From Salon • Mar. 27, 2025

“Recent reports from our partners indicate that 20 children have died in recent weeks of malnutrition in that IDP camp,” she said.

From Seattle Times • May 3, 2024

Investigators found aid diversion at all of the 55 IDP sites in Somalia from which they collected data, the report said.

From Reuters • Sep. 19, 2023

Readily verbed as `blackhole': "That router is blackholing IDP packets."

From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.