Meaning of EOD in English

EOD

noun

/ˌiː.əʊˈdiː/ us

/ˌiː.oʊˈdiː/

EOD noun (IN MILITARY)

[ C or U ] military specialized

abbreviation for Explosive Ordnance Disposal: the job of examining and removing an explosive device and preventing it from exploding, or a group of people in the military who do this job:

He called EOD and they brought in a robot to destroy the device.

He was an EOD officer in Baghdad.

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When you're doing a job as stressful as EOD, it helps to have a sick sense of humour.
Bomb squads are known in the Army as EOD teams.
The final defence against roadside bombs fell to a few hundred EOD technicians.
They are sending an explosives ordinance team, known as an EOD, to check out both IEDs.

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EOD noun (IN BUSINESS)

[ S or U ] business specialized (also eod)

abbreviation for end of day: used, especially in business, to mean the end of the working day:

There is an escalation on that. I need results by EOD.

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With luck we will have the project up by EOD tomorrow.
If the index can stay above 4430 by eod, I think the rally may continue.
EOD is used to set a deadline for a task that should be complete by the end of the business day -- typically 5:00 PM.

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(Definition of EOD from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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Translations of EOD

in Chinese (Traditional)

拆彈部隊（Explosive Ordnance Disposal的縮寫）, 一天結束的時候，（尤指）下班時（ end of day 的縮寫）…

in Chinese (Simplified)

拆弹部队（Explosive Ordnance Disposal的缩写）, 一天结束的时候，（尤指）下班时（ end of day 的缩写）…

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