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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation German Democratic Republic

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  • initialism the former German Democratic Republic
  • initialism Global Depositary Receipt

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Examples

  • They Weren’t So Bad After All, or assert that the film evinces "dewy-eyed nostalgia" for the GDR, is beyond my comprehension.

    GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 11/30. 2006

  • The head of the Eastern Olympic Committee defected to the West, Dr. Noscinski, and he stated that every single athlete who competes for the GDR is doped, every one.

    Elitism in Sports 1991

  • And the GDR was a particular kind of state: it was the Soviet Zone of Occupation turned into a satellite of the Soviet Union.

    1989! Ash, Timothy Garton 2009

  • Citizens of the former DDR aka GDR, aka "East Germany" were citizens of the highest income, technologically leading member of the Warsaw Pact and the CMEA, if any of you remember what any of these now dead entities were.

    Who Wants to Privatize Lenin?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Of the workers, there are 134 technicians and workers who were trained in the GDR -- 134, and another 100 [corrects himself] 106 technicians and workers who are being trained in the GDR, that is, about 240 youths trained in the GDR in breweries similar to this one who have acquired great experience, experience of great quality.

    INAUGURATING THE TINIMA BREWERY 1985

  • Thaelmann -- [applause] and the people of the GDR are the heirs of those splendid revolutionary traditions.

    CIENFUEGOS RALLY HONORING HONECKER 1974

  • I was really happy to hear that, because the GDR is another country with extraordinary merits.

    INAUGURATION OF CEIBA 7 JUNIOR HIGH FARMING SCH. 1972

  • Something which has satisfied us most of all during our visit to the GDR is the solidarity in the GDR with the people of Vietnam. [applause] We have felt it in the slogans, in the speeches, and among the masses.

    CASTRO BERLIN RALLY SPEECH 1972

  • The GDR is the first socialist German state of workers and peasants in the heart of Europe, on the border of the imperialist world.

    CASTRO HAILS TIES 1972

  • The GDR is a financial tool used by private companies to raise capital globally in either

    China Post Online - Taiwan , News , Taiwan newspaper 2010

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