Gdp
//ˌd͡ʒiːdiːˈpiː// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Initialism of gross domestic product. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable, usually
"Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month."
- 2 the measure of an economy adopted by the United States in 1991; the total market values of goods and services produced by workers and capital within a nation's borders during a given period (usually 1 year) wordnet
- 3 Initialism of guanosine diphosphate, a nucleotide. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable, usually
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