ASR

American  

abbreviation

1. airport surveillance radar.

2. U.S. Navy. air-sea rescue.

3. automatic speech recognition.

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Example Sentences

Fox recently launched a $1.5 billion ASR, or accelerated stock repurchase program, buying back $700 million of the nonvoting shares and $800 million of the voting stock.

From Barron's

Harley said it plans to enter into an ASR agreement with Goldman Sachs to repurchase $200 million of shares of common stock, part of a prior plan to buy back $1 billion in shares by the end of 2026.

From The Wall Street Journal

Staff told the BBC that the strike in the early afternoon - between the Muslim prayers of Zuhr and Asr - was outside of the cafe's busiest hours.

From BBC

In January US-based startup Bonumose, with the assistance of ASR Group, the world's largest refiner of cane sugar, opened a new plant to produce another - tagatose - also at lower cost.

From BBC

In its seven-and-half minutes, “ASR” hints at fusion jazz, Funkadelic, Ethiopian pop, reggae and psychedelia; the guitarist Jeff Parker, from Tortoise, teases the music forward.

From New York Times