"ABD" meaning in English

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "ABD (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "all but dissertation"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 3 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              231,
              234
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1992, Mary Romero, “Intersection of Biography and History: My Intellectual Journey”, in Maid in the U.S.A., Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 6:",
          "text": "Most of my employers knew I was a graduate student, and fortunately, most seemed reluctant to ask me too many questions. Our mutual silence served as a way to deal with the status inconsistency of a house wife with a B.A. hiring a ABD to clean her house.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              123,
              126
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2001, John Siegfried, Wendy Stock, “So You Want to Earn a Ph.D. in Economics?: How Long Do You Think It Will Take?”, in The Journal of Human Resources, volume 36, number 2, page 366:",
          "text": "The most common reason for such episodes is that a student takes a job before completing a thesis, usually after attaining ABD (all but dissertation) status.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Initialism of all but dissertation."
      ],
      "hypernyms": [
        {
          "word": "abt"
        }
      ],
      "id": "en-ABD-en-noun-rlK-60~T",
      "links": [
        [
          "all but dissertation",
          "all but dissertation#English"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "academics",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(academics) Initialism of all but dissertation."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "initialism",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ABD"
}

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "ABD (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hypernyms": [
    {
      "word": "abt"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "all but dissertation"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English 3-letter abbreviations",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English initialisms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 3 entries",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              231,
              234
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1992, Mary Romero, “Intersection of Biography and History: My Intellectual Journey”, in Maid in the U.S.A., Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 6:",
          "text": "Most of my employers knew I was a graduate student, and fortunately, most seemed reluctant to ask me too many questions. Our mutual silence served as a way to deal with the status inconsistency of a house wife with a B.A. hiring a ABD to clean her house.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              123,
              126
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2001, John Siegfried, Wendy Stock, “So You Want to Earn a Ph.D. in Economics?: How Long Do You Think It Will Take?”, in The Journal of Human Resources, volume 36, number 2, page 366:",
          "text": "The most common reason for such episodes is that a student takes a job before completing a thesis, usually after attaining ABD (all but dissertation) status.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Initialism of all but dissertation."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "all but dissertation",
          "all but dissertation#English"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "academics",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(academics) Initialism of all but dissertation."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "initialism",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ABD"
}