CBD, noun
- Plurals:
- CBDs.
Initial letters of Central Business District, the main commercial area of a town or city.
- Note:
- Used also in N.Z. , Australian , and other varieties of English.
2007 S. Rothgiesser in Sawubona Sept. 138...Egoli’s inner city is the rough diamond of South Africa’s real estate...With the ending of the Group Areas Act and the consequent freedom of movement, and, importantly, residence, in the CBD, the ’80s and ’90s saw a “white flight” to the northern (and green) suburbs.
2017 businesslive.co.za (DSAE Corpus)The idea was to create a space where local farmers and producers could sell their products in the heart of the CBD daily instead of just once or twice a week at markets.
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