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BID

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English

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Etymology 1

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    Borrowed from Latin bis in diē.

    Adverb

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    BID (not comparable)

    1. (pharmacology) twice a day, two times per day
      Coordinate terms: QID, TID
      • 2014 April, Ken. Seufert, “The New Dawn of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing: Innovative Solutions for Unprecedented Challenges”, in American Pharmaceutical Review:
        It has been repeatedly documented that moving patients from a TID dosing regimen to BID or OD vastly improves compliance, and thus the medicine's effectiveness.
    Usage notes
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    Commonly written as: “amoxicillin 500 mg BID”, read as: “500 milligram dosage of amoxicillin, taken two times a day” (totalling 1000mg).

    Etymology 2

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    Noun

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    BID (plural BIDs)

    1. Acronym of business improvement district.

    Anagrams

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    Spanish

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    Proper noun

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    BID m

    1. initialism of Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (Inter-American Development Bank)
      • 2022 June 30, Ángela Reyes Haczek, “Dejar el hogar y empezar el viaje: quiénes son los que migran a EE.UU. y por qué lo hacen”, in CNN en Español[1]:
        La búsqueda de oportunidades económicas fue mencionada por el 74% de migrantes centroamericanos en Estados Unidos encuestados para un estudio del BID como la principal causa para querer radicarse en el norte.
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