"DDA" meaning in English

See DDA in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: DDAs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} DDA (plural DDAs)
  1. Initialism of difficult development area. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: difficult development area
    Sense id: en-DDA-en-noun-uG0oxcY2 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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