DOB
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- proper noun
- US
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Departamento de Edificios
- All asked for DOB, SSN; some asked for the year of graduation from high school (the jobs required a college degree).
Examples
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Never mind that the SS# and DOB are stored on a third party's website.
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But the DOB filings indicate that yes, another floor is being added.
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DOB and name match an SIS-generated passport from 2008.
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The property also has 17 open DOB violations, mostly related to its elevators, some going back as far as 1993.
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For example, if you apply for a job on the San Diego County employment site, using the online application requires DOB, driver's license, and SSI.
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If you are paying a bill for someone else or not using the payment stub, make sure the full name of the patient is on the payment plus the account number or DOB, especially if the address on the check differs from the one on the account.
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I went to a firm today where they did not want me to take their spelling and typing test without my SSN and DOB.
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Reading the EA forums, there were a few issues with people not being able to reset their accounts because the DOB for the account was different from that of the original account owner.
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The Schedule A on the DOB's site indicates that the existing fifth floor and the new sixth floor and mezzanine will be one triplex (or maybe a two-and-a-half-plex?).
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The contractor submitted all the necessary documents to the DOB for permit approval.
Surface Forms
Morphology
DOB = D + O + B
An acronym for a multiword agency name ('Department of Buildings'); the letter sequence does not allow learners to infer the full phrase.
Etymology
DOB is an abbreviation of Department of Buildings, which is 'a government office that checks building safety', so when people say the DOB they mean the agency that inspects and approves construction.