SDP

SDP

1. (international standards, historical) ISO 4217 currency code for the former first Sudanese pound; a currency used from 1956 to 1998.

SDP

1. (UK politics, historical, 1981–1988) Initialism of Social Democratic Party, a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom.
   • 2008, Cherie Blair, Speaking for Myself: My Life from Liverpool to Downing Street:

     We believed that the Trots represented a mad, extreme form of Labour that was never going to do anything for anybody, yet we felt strongly that nothing would be achieved by jumping ship and defecting to the SDP.

2. (networking) Initialism of Session Description Protocol.

SDP (countable and uncountable, plural SDPs)

1. Initialism of symmetrized dot pattern.
2. (computing, uncountable) Initialism of stochastic dynamic programming.
3. (networking) Initialism of service discovery protocol.
4. (telecommunications) Initialism of service data point.
5. (law, US) Initialism of sexually dangerous person.

• DPS, DPs, DSP, PDS, PDs, PSD, SPD, spd

SDP

1. Initialism of Sosialidemokraattinen Puolue (“Social Democratic Party of Finland”).

SDP

1. Initialism of sans domicile proche; that is, close to homelessness

New term used mainly about people there is currently staying somewhere, but with no permanent residence. This is an official French term.

• SDF

SDP

1. (politics) Initialism of Sosyalist Demokrasi Partisi (Socialist Democracy Party).

• DSP