dr
abbreviation
door.
dr
1 American
Dr
2
American
abbreviation
Chiefly British.
DR
3
American
abbreviation
dr.
4
American
abbreviation
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debit.
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debtor.
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drachma; drachmas.
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dram; drams.
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drawer.
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drum.
Dr.
5
American
abbreviation
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Doctor.
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Drive (used in street names).
D.R.
6
American
dr
1
British
abbreviation
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debtor
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Also: dr.. dram
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drawer
dr.
2
British
abbreviation
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debit
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Also: dr. dram
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(the former) drachma
Dr
3
British
abbreviation
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Doctor
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(in street names) Drive
DR
4
British
abbreviation
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Together with colleagues from Wageningen University and 12 other research institutions from the US, France, Argentina, Italy and Chile, dr.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 9, 2024
According to Vulture, in 2022, Petras tweeted in response to a fan asking her to “stop defending dr luke” by writing, “I have nothing to say or be ashamed of at all.”
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 27, 2023
As we add up all the fluxes over all the squares approximating surface S, line integrals ∫ElF · dr and ∫FrF · dr cancel each other out.
From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016
Because of Equation 6.9, we often use the notation ∫CF · dr for the line integral ∫CF · Tds.
From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016
He shook Horace by the jaw and shouted, “What dr aw erf!”
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
Athletes started earning money by endorsing everything from local barbecue joints to Dr Pepper.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Launching an "urgent" investigation, Dr Martin Mansfield, deputy chief medical officer at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust, said that any unauthorised access of patient data was "completely unacceptable".
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
In 1995, forensic psychologist Dr Diana McCoy was hired by Pike's defence team and found she was severely neglected by both of her parents.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
"That's really where the problems began," said Dr Shane Speights, dean of the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State University.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
It isn’t anywhere close to the spring equinox yet, when rites usually happen, but maybe that’s what Dr.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
Could he have stopped the goals v Croatia, DR Congo and Fernandez v Argentina?
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
"Attacks against volunteers and humanitarian personnel are unacceptable," the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement said in a statement, along with the Red Cross societies of the DR Congo and Uganda.
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
This 17th outbreak of the Ebola is already the deadliest in DR Congo's history and spreading faster than any other.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
Meanwhile, the M23 rebel group that controls parts of the east of DR Congo has announced new restrictions on movement between government-held and rebel-held areas of North Kivu province.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Put one after another, Alfred, panting, huffing, low steps but hundreds of them, thousands of them in the darkness, the stairs so steep he sometimes fell to all fours, scrambling higher, past the sign, DR.
From "The Contender" by Robert Lipsyte
"A few months ago my dr. was doing some routine lab work and found that I was anemic," Monroe captioned her post.
From Fox News ● Jul. 13, 2021
We've asked and invited her to engage more but the excuses just multiply - I ache, I have a meeting, I have a dr. appointment, the list goes on and on.
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2018
There's a good word and I'm not at all sure what it means. dr. remnant. Per . . lucere . . . letting light through. remnant leaves them. carnaby. Soft, pellucid rain! . . thank you.
From Three Plays by Granville-Barker The Marrying of Ann Leete; The Voysey Inheritance; Waste by Harley Granville-Barker
On the 31st of July 1906 the paper issue had been reduced to 152,775,975 dr., and the amount in circulation was 124,668,057 dr.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various
She goes with her husband. mrs. opie comes hurriedly out of the dining-room, too late. mrs. opie. Oh! dr. remnant. Run . .
From Three Plays by Granville-Barker The Marrying of Ann Leete; The Voysey Inheritance; Waste by Harley Granville-Barker
Did he anticipate Dr. Harry Edwards being co-opted by the 49ers, Ray Lewis by the Ravens, and the players’ coalition by team owners?
From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2026
“As we were adding new technology for more things we can do at the bedside, the alarm burden was only increasing,” says Dr. Felice Su, medical director of the pediatric intensive-care unit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
"I think we missed the boat after the Premier League ship sailed. We are no longer the best of the rest," Dr. France acknowledges.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
Dr. Louise Van Der Weyden, senior author at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, said the study provides a foundation for the next stage of feline cancer research.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026
He lies down on his own bed so Dr. Harlow can shave his head and examine the wound more closely.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
Fresh off closing its $6.8 billion deal for home builder Taylor Morrison, Berkshire Hathaway bought a new, albeit small, stake in D.R.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026
The downshift is based on both the past nine months of results and current market conditions, D.R.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
"Oh D.R. me that was close!" it laments.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
Celebrity justice in the D.R. can be perplexing, and Judge José Antonio Núñez admitted as much.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026
His father was a Dominican migrant worker who met his mother picking blueberries in Cherryfield, got her pregnant, moved back to the D.R. to shack up with a local girl, and never looked back.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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