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rtd

adjective

rtd is an adjective meaning “Abbreviation of retired” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-T-D, and it appears about once in every 2 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does rtd mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Abbreviation of retired.

adjective

as RTD
  1. 1

    Initialism of ready-to-drink.

noun

as RTD
  1. 1

    Initialism of real-time detection.

  2. 2

    Initialism of research and technological (or technical) development.

  3. 3

    Initialism of resonant-tunneling diode.

  4. 4

    Initialism of resistance temperature device/detector.

  5. 5

    Abbreviation of retard.

  6. 6

    Initialism of round-trip delay.

  7. 7

    Initialism of ready-to-drink.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is rtd?

Rtd appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 38,863rd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).