BDS

See also: bds, BDs, bdS, and bdš

Translingual

BDS

As regards ISO 3166, this is an indeterminately reserved code, included as part of ISO 3166-1 due to its use in designating road vehicles under the 1949 Geneva Convention on Road Traffic, and is not endorsed for general use by the ISO. The general-purpose code for Barbados is BRB.
This code is sometimes used in place of BBD for the Barbados dollar. However, this conflicts with the currency coding standardization rules in ISO 4217, as currency codes beginning with BD are reserved for Bangladesh, due to that being its ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code.

BDS

Initialism of Bachelor of Dental Surgery (academic qualification to practise dentistry in the UK and most of the Commonwealth except Canada)
Initialism of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions.
- 2023 October 15, Julian Gen, The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A Comprehensive Introduction: The History, Politics, and Culture Behind the Ongoing Struggle, Red Dot Publications, page 208:
  The BDS movement aims to pressure Israel to end its occupation of Palestinian territories and to respect the rights of Palestinians. The movement advocates for boycotts of Israeli products, divestment from companies operating in Israeli settlements, and sanctions against Israel.
- 2023 December 14, Kate Connolly, “Award ceremony suspended after writer compares Gaza to Nazi-era Jewish ghettos”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:
  In the essay, Gessen, who uses they, criticised Germany’s unequivocal support of Israel, drawing attention to the Bundestag’s 2019 resolution condemning the Israel boycott movement BDS as antisemitic and quoting a Jewish critic of Germany’s politics of Holocaust remembrance as saying memory culture had “gone haywire”.
(US, politics, slang, derogatory) Initialism of Bush Derangement Syndrome.