HoD, noun

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Also HOD.
Written abbreviation of House of Delegates, see house sense 2. Also attributive.
1989 Progress Mar. 8HoD campaign...The campaign for a stronger liberal opposition presence in the House of Delegates is in full swing.
1989 F. Meer in Daily Dispatch 21 Apr. 4I believe the HoD to be an irrelevant organisation. Its entire five-year period of existence has been characterised by mud-slinging, infused with the culture of corruption, co-option, coercion and despotism.
1990 Stanger Mail 19 Jan. 3HOD spokesman, Mr Ramkishan M— has..stated that all departmental hearings cannot be held in public.
1994 R.W. Johnson in London Review of Books (U.K.) 6 Jan. 9The HoD (commonly known as the House of Dogs) is a chamber in which corruption has been so general and the tendency of MPs to switch parties so frequent..that its sole merit..lies in the way it has brought to the wider nation an entertainment hitherto enjoyed by Natalians alone.
Written abbreviation of House of Delegates, see house sense 2.
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