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R&D

R&D

44 3.9
The part of a company that does research and creates new products or technologies
  • noun
  • /ɑːr ənd di/
  • Specialized
translation icon : investigación y desarrollo
  • Without sufficient funding for R&D, the company struggled to keep up with competitors in the tech industry.
  • R&D budget
  • R&D investment
  • R&D spending

OK, we throw more money at R&D; and it will figure it out.

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Examples

  • They can focus a lot of time into R&D and create great products.

  • They share R&D facilities with the University of California.

  • We're just in the R&D phase and moving on to characters.

  • And how can the United States better link its R&D efforts with those of other nations?

    Academic text (1991)
  • Investment in R&D and innovation will bring high skilled, well paid jobs.

  • The vehicle, which we call Lightning II, represents three years of R&D.

  • An empirical issue is the relationship between R&D funding, technical success, and market acceptance.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Allen Chandler Smith, Jr. has over 40 years of experience in R&D in the nuclear business.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Spent 15 years heading up GothCorp Chemicals' R&D division.

  • He found that increasing total government R&D spending does raise wages and attract these workers.

How Innovative

R&D
  • Specialized
44 3.9
dev
  • Jargon
3 6.5
laboratory
  • Specialized
33 3.9

Surface Forms

R&D singular
R&Ds plural

Etymology

R&D comes from the words research and development, where research is like 'searching' for new knowledge and development is the work of 'making' or 'growing' ideas into products. So R&D is the part of a company that finds new ideas and turns them into new products or technologies.