DB

DB (plural DBs)

1. Initialism of dead body.
   • 1952, LIFE, volume 32, number 1, page 20:

     With an extra-long weekend before Christmas and New Year's Day coming up, the police of motorized, subwayless Los Angeles had learned by experience to expect plenty of wrecked cars and DBs (dead bodies) on their hands.

2. (American football, Canadian football) Initialism of defensive back.
3. (databases) Initialism of database.
4. (US, military) Initialism of depot brigade.
5. (UK, pensions) Initialism of defined benefits.
6. (television) Initialism of delayed broadcast.
7. Initialism of dirty book: a pornographic publication.
8. Initialism of diplomatic bag.
9. (cricket) Initialism of dot ball.

DB

1. (rail transport) Initialism of Deutsche Bahn (German Railways). Previously used by its predecessor, Deutsche Bundesbahn.
2. (in place name histories) Initialism of Domesday Book.
3. (classics) Abbreviation of Inscription of Darius at Bisutun.
4. (fandom slang) Abbreviation of Dragon Ball.
5. (stock ticker symbol) Initialism of Deutsche Bank.
   • 2023 September 19, Laura He, “China woos Tesla, JP Morgan and other Western companies as foreign investment slumps”, in CNN Business‎^[1]:

     Pan Gongsheng, governor of the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) and head of the country’s foreign exchange regulator, chaired a symposium with representatives from foreign companies, including JP Morgan, Tesla (TSLA), HSBC (HSBC), Deutsche Bank (DB), BNP Paribas, Japan’s MUFG Bank, German chemical producer BASF, commodities trader Trafigura and Schneider Electric, according to a statement posted on the websites of the PBOC and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE).

Sense 4: used chiefly to refer to the manga and the first anime series (both named Dragon Ball) rather than the franchise as a whole.

• bd, B/D, BD, b/d, Bd., bd., Bd, B & D

DB

1. (rail transport) initialism of Deutsche Bahn, the national railway company of Germany

• IPA^(key): /ˈde.be/

DB (plural DB-DB)

1. initialism of demam berdarah (“hemorrhagic fever”)

DB

1. abbreviation of Dâmbovița: a county of Romania