| Acronym | Definition |
|---|
| ACDS | Advanced Combat Direction System |
| ACDS | Association for Children with Down Syndrome |
| ACDS | Arundel Community Development Services (Annapolis, MD) |
| ACDS | African Centre for Disaster Studies (est. 2002; South Africa) |
| ACDS | Alexandria Country Day School (Alexandria, VA) |
| ACDS | Appeals Centralized Database System (US IRS) |
| ACDS | Active Control Data Set (IBM mainframes storage management) |
| ACDS | Apprenticeship for Child Development Specialists |
| ACDS | Association for Community Development Services (India) |
| ACDS | Association pour la Création et la Diffusion Scientifique (French: Association for Scientific Creation and Dissemination) |
| ACDS | Adult ADHD Clinical Diagnostic Scale |
| ACDS | Albuquerque Country Day School (Albuquerque, New Mexico) |
| ACDS | Arkansas Commodity Distribution System |
| ACDS | Attitude Control Data System |
| ACDS | Attitude Control & Determination System |
| ACDS | Automated Cargo Document System |
| ACDS | Alternate Control Data Set |
| ACDS | Assistant Chief of the Defense Staff |
| ACDS | Anterior Cervical Diskectomy |
| ACDS | Advanced Combat Data System |
| ACDS | Automobile Club des Deux-Sèvres (French: Automobile Club of Deux-Sevres; Deux-Sevres, France) |
| ACDS | Advanced Command Data System |
| ACDS | All Canadian Driving School (Langley, BC, Canada) |
| ACDS | Anti Christian Death Squad (band) |