CDU

CDU (plural CDUs)

1. (petrochemistry) Initialism of crude distillation unit.

CDU

1. (German politics) Initialism of Christian Democratic Union (of Germany) (“Christlich Demokratische Union”) (a major mainstream German political party)
   • 2025 February 24, Sophie Tanno and Nadine Schmidt, “Germany’s far-right may be frozen out of power, but the AfD is now a powerful force”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     “I am certain that this so-called ‘firewall’ will stop after this election,” AfD youth wing leader Hannes Gnauck told CNN Sunday evening. He added, “There will be a CDU after Friedrich Merz, and this CDU will have to work together with the AfD.”

• ucd, duc, CUD, UCD, DCU, UDC, cud

CDU f

1. (politics) Christen-Democraten Unie - the Union of Christian Democrats (a Dutch political party that existed from 1964 till 1982)

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CDU f (proper noun, genitive CDU)

1. (German politics) CDU: initialism of Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands (“Christian Democratic Union of Germany”)

• There are several compounds like: CDU-Abgeordneter, CDU-Bundesvorstand, CDU-Fraktion, CDU-Parteivorstand, CDU-Politiker, CDU-Spendenaffäre.

• Partei

• CDUler

• → English: CDU

• JU
• Schwarzgeldaffäre