Usa vs Abd - What's the difference?
usa | abd |
The ISO 3166-1 three-letter (alpha-3) code for the United States of America.
ISO 3166-1
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(academics) all but dissertation: A description of the status of a doctoral student who has completed all PhD degree requirements except the doctoral dissertation.
* 2001 , John Siegfried and Wendy Stock, "So You Want to Earn a Ph.D. in Economics?: How Long Do You Think It Will Take?" The Journal of Human Resources , vol. 36, no. 2, p. 366:
English three-letter words
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As a verb usa
is .As an abbreviation abd is
.As an initialism abd is
(academics) all but dissertation: a description of the status of a doctoral student who has completed all phd degree requirements except the doctoral dissertation.usa
Translingual
Symbol
(head)abd
English
Abbreviation
(Abbreviation) (head)Initialism
(Initialism) (head)- 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.