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D&B (plural D&Bs)

  1. (business, usually in the plural) A report on a company, especially as provided by Dun & Bradstreet.
    • 2000 January 18, D. J. Vallone, Untrained Hearts, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 12:
      Running the D&Bs and credit reports has been one of her responsibilities since she took the position over a year ago.
    • 2007 12, Michael Connelly, An Informal Boston Education: Boston Boomers, Beaches, Buddies, Broads, Bars, Beer, Baseball, and Barbells, iUniverse, →ISBN:
      He's got the proof of delivery saying the customers owe the money, and he's got the D&Bs saying they have the means to pay.
  2. Initialism of drum and bass.
    • 2021 May 6, Ewa Mazierska, Tony Rigg, Les Gillon, The Evolution of Electronic Dance Music, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 194:
      D&B music emerged from a fusion of big beat, breakbeat hardcore, jungle, techno, funk and electronica.
  3. Initialism of dandelion and burdock.
    • 2014 November 29, Drew Hunt, Cowboy Sandwich Book 2: Second Helpings, JMS Books LLC, →ISBN, page 40:
      Barry pulled three more cans of D&B plus a bottle of water out of the fridge.
    • 2017 February 23, Trezza Azzopardi, The Hiding Place: Picador Classic, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN:
      Pippo has discovered that Celesta likes Dandelion and Burdock best of all, so he's had the side of the wagon repainted; a huge dripping heart with a motto inside: All Because Selesta Loves D&B!

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