ABD

See also: abd, abd., Abd., A.B.D., and абд

Translingual edit

ABD

ABD

ABD (uncountable)

(academics) Abbreviation of all but dissertation (“A description of the status of a doctoral student who has completed all Ph.D. degree requirements except the doctoral dissertation.”).
- 1992, Mary Romero, “Intersection of Biography and History: My Intellectual Journey”, in Maid in the U.S.A., Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 6:
  Most of my employers knew I was a graduate student, and fortunately, most seemed reluctant to ask me too many questions. Our mutual slience served as a way to deal with the status inconsistency of a house wife with a B.A. hiring a ABD to clean her house.
- 2001, John Siegfried, Wendy Stock, “So You Want to Earn a Ph.D. in Economics?: How Long Do You Think It Will Take?”, in The Journal of Human Resources, volume 36, number 2, page 366:
  The most common reason for such episodes is that a student takes a job before completing a thesis, usually after attaining ABD (all but dissertation) status.

^ Morris, William, editor (1969), The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, New York, NY: American Heritage Publishing Co., Inc., published 1971, →ISBN, page 1

ABD

USA (a country in North America); initialism of Amerika Birleşik Devletleri (“United States of America”)

Declension of ABD