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GDR

GDR is the initialism of global depository receipt.

GDR is the initialism of German Democratic Republic.

Meaning of German Democratic Republic

Proper noun

the German Democratic Republic (abbreviation GDR)

  1. (historical) Official name of East Germany (from 1947 through reunification in 1990): a former country in Central Europe.
    • Developments were markedly different in the Soviet zone, but ultimately ended in perhaps an even grimmer dead end: that of SED leader Walter Ulbricht’s thoroughly Stalinized German Democratic Republic (GDR).2017 May, Loren Balhorn, “The Lost History of Antifa”, in Jacobin Magazine

Synonyms of GDR

Forms of GDR

pluralGDRs

Questions about GDR

What is GDR the initialism of?
GDR is the initialism of global depository receipt.

Words near GDR in the dictionary

  1. GDP
  2. GDPism
  3. GDPR
  4. GDPs
  5. GDQ
  6. GDR
  7. GDrive
  8. GDRs
  9. gds
  10. GDSs
  11. GDW

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Adapted from Wiktionary: GDR (page history and authors); German Democratic Republic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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