Definition of "GDS"

GDS

noun
plural GDSs
1. (travel, aviation) Initialism of Global Distribution System.
  Quotations
  You see, middlemen are dying. Sabre, the former AA subsidiary that is now an independent global distribution system (GDS) supplying travel agencies and online travel agencies with ticket and pricing information, recently announced it was raising the rates it charges on AA tickets. This move was an escalation of a battle that has been brewing between airlines and GDSs.
  2012, Kaihan Krippendorff, “Today's Business Revolution”, in Outthink the Competition: How a New Generation of Strategists Sees Options Others Ignore, John Wiley & Sons, page 21
2. (mathematics) Initialism of Graph Dynamical System.
proper noun
1. (UK) Initialism of Government Digital Service.