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DDU

"DDU" is a common misspelling or typo for: dud, dude, duds.


Specialty Definition: DDU

DomainDefinition

Economics

The seller fulfils his obligation to deliver when the goods have been made available at the named place in the country of importation. The seller has to bear the costs and risks involved in bringing the goods thereto (excluding duties, taxes and other official charges payable upon importation as well as the costs and risks of carrying out customs formalities). The buyer has to pay any additional costs and bear any risks caused by his failure to clear the goods for import in time. (Delivered Duty Unpaid... named place of destination). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: DDU

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

DDU

DutchDienst douane-unieEuropean Union, Economics

DDU

EnglishDelivered duty unpaidFinance

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: DDU

Synonyms by domain: Data Display Unit (transportation), delivered duty unpaid (finance), Display Drive Unit (computing).

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Crosswords: DDU

Specialty definitions using "DDU": Terms of Sale. (references)

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Modern Usage: DDU

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

DDU (1999)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: DDU

"DDU" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "DDU" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)80%8124,375
Noun (singular)10%1339,140
Noun (common)10%1339,140
                    Total100.00%10N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: DDU

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "DDU": rhyd-ddu.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DDU

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

ddu

19

sony ddu 1621

6

ddu 1621

6

1612 ddu

4

ddu inco terms

3

ddu express

2

1612 ddu sony

2

sony dvd rom ddu 1621

2

sony ddu

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: DDU

Derivations

Words containing "DDU": adduce, adduced, adducent, adducer, adducers, adduces, adducing, adduct, adducted, adducting, adduction, adductions, adductive, adductor, adductors, adducts, kiddush, kiddushes, kiddushim, siddur, siddurim, siddurs, smeddum, smeddums. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: DDU

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: dud.

 Words containing the letters "d-d-u"
 

+1 letter: duad, dude, duds, rudd, sudd.

 

+2 letters: audad, buddy, cuddy, druid, duads, duddy, duded, dudes, duked, duped, dured, muddy, rudds, ruddy, sudds, udder, undid.

 

+3 letters: adduce, adduct, aoudad, audads, budded, budder, buddle, budged, caudad, cruddy, cuddie, cuddle, cuddly, curded, daubed, dauted, deduce, deduct, defund, delude, denude, deuced, dirdum, disbud, doused, drudge, druids, dubbed, ducked, ducted, duddie, dudeen, duding, dudish, dueled, duende, dulled, dumbed, dumdum, dumped, dunged, dunked, dunned, dunted, dupped, durned, dusked, dusted, educed, eluded, endued, exuded, feuded, fuddle, fudged, funded, guided, huddle, indued, judder, judged, lauded, mudded, mudder, muddle, muddly, nudged, outadd, outdid, puddle, puddly, redbud, rudder, ruddle, saddhu, siddur, sudden, sudsed, sueded, udders, undead, undyed.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: DDU


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 44 55

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    -..    ..-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01000100 01010101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#68 &#85

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0044 0055

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

383855

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Abbreviations
9. Acronyms
10. Derivations
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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