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Meaning of HDB in English:

HDB

noun

South East Asian

  • (in Singapore) used with reference to public housing built and managed by the government.

    ‘a large majority of people in Singapore live in HDBs’
    • ‘he has been trying to sell his five-room HDB flat’

Origin

1960s short for Housing and Development Board, the government agency responsible for public housing in Singapore.