BID

See also: Appendix:Variations of "bid"

English

Etymology 1

From Latin bis in diē.

Adverb

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

Commonly written as: “amoxicillin 500 mg BID”, read as: “500 milligram dosage of amoxicillin, taken two times a day” (totalling 1000mg).

Etymology 2

Noun

BID (plural BIDs)

  1. Acronym of business improvement district.

Anagrams

Spanish

Proper noun

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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