Meanings
plural IDPs
- abbreviationinitialismInitialism of internally displaced person.
A child sits in a wheelchair in an IDP camp set up at Nairobi's Mathare slum, Kenya, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2008.
2008 February 5, “Kenya's Death Toll Surpasses 1,000”, in cbsnews.com, archived from the original on 15 Jun 2008, picture caption1 more example
By the end of 2022 the number of internally displaced people (IDPs) – those forced from their homes but remaining within their country of residence – reached 71 million, according to figures published by the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), up from 59.1 million in 2021.
2023 May 11, Lizzy Davies, “Conflict and climate disasters combine to create record rise in displaced people”, in The Guardian - abbreviationinitialismbiochemistryInitialism of intrinsically disordered protein.
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nounautomatic data processing in which data acquisition and other stages or processing are integrated into a coherent system
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Translations
French PDI
- PDIinternally displaced person
Ukrainian ВПО
- ВПО (VPO)internally displaced person
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Cite this entry
IDP. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/IDP
“IDP.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/IDP. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “IDP,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/IDP.
Source: IDP on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.