SDP

See also: sdp

Translingual

Symbol

SDP

1. (international standards, historical) ISO 4217 currency code for the former first Sudanese pound; a currency used from 1956 to 1998.

English

Proper noun

SDP

1. (UK politics, historical, 1981–1988) Initialism of Social Democratic Party, a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom.
   • 2008, Cherie Blair, Speaking for Myself: My Life from Liverpool to Downing Street:

     We believed that the Trots represented a mad, extreme form of Labour that was never going to do anything for anybody, yet we felt strongly that nothing would be achieved by jumping ship and defecting to the SDP.

2. (networking) Initialism of Session Description Protocol.
3. (Singaporean politics) Initialism of Singapore Democratic Party
4. (Finnish politics) Initialism of Social Democratic Party of Finland (“Suomen sosialidemokraattinen puolue”).
   • 2019 April 15, Leona Siaw, “Center-left party wins Finland parliamentary election”, in CNN‎:

     SDP Chairman Antti Rinne, as leader of the largest party, will have first shot at forming a government, and at becoming the first left-wing prime minister in Finland since 2003.

Noun

SDP (countable and uncountable, plural SDPs)

1. Initialism of symmetrized dot pattern.
2. (computing, uncountable) Initialism of stochastic dynamic programming.
3. (networking) Initialism of service discovery protocol.
4. (telecommunications) Initialism of service data point.
5. (law, US) Initialism of sexually dangerous person.

Anagrams

• DPS, DPs, DSP, PDS, PDs, PSD, SPD, spd

Finnish

Proper noun

SDP

1. initialism of Sosialidemokraattinen Puolue (“Social Democratic Party of Finland”)

French

Adjective

SDP

1. initialism of sans domicile proche; that is, close to homelessness

Usage notes

New term used mainly about people there is currently staying somewhere, but with no permanent residence. This is an official French term.

See also

• SDF

Turkish

Proper noun

SDP

1. (politics) initialism of Sosyalist Demokrasi Partisi (Socialist Democracy Party).

Anagrams

• DSP