IDP

English

Noun

IDP (uncountable)

1. Initialism of isopentenyl diphosphate

   Synonym: IPP

Noun

IDP (plural IDPs)

1. Initialism of internally displaced person.
   • 2008, cbsnews.com, Kenya's Death Toll Surpasses 1,000 (picture caption)

     "A child sits in a wheelchair in an IDP camp set up at Nairobi's Mathare slum, Kenya, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2008."

   • 2023 May 11, Lizzy Davies, “Conflict and climate disasters combine to create record rise in displaced people”, in The Guardian‎:

     By the end of 2022 the number of internally displaced people (IDPs) – those forced from their homes but remaining within their country of residence – reached 71 million, according to figures published by the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), up from 59.1 million in 2021.

2. (biochemistry) Initialism of intrinsically disordered protein.

Translations

internally displaced person

French: PDI (fr) Ukrainian: ВПО (uk) (VPO)

Anagrams

• DPi, PID, DPI, dpi, IPD, PDI, DIP, dip