agr-

¹

1. variant of agro- or agri- before a vowel.

agr.

²

abbreviation

1. agricultural.

2. agriculture.

agr.

¹

abbreviation

1. agricultural

2. agriculture

AGR

²

abbreviation

1. advanced gas-cooled reactor

Example Sentences

VW's former Kaluga factory, which has annual production capacity of 225,000 vehicles, was renamed AGR Automotive by its new owner.

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Chery and AGR Automotive declined to comment.

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Under current plans, even with the extensions agreed today, the country's entire fleet of AGR reactors is due to close by 2028.

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Goetz and Uganda-based AGR are key players in Congo’s illicit gold trade, which is worth hundreds of millions of dollars each year and is the largest source of revenue for armed groups in the country, the Treasury said Thursday in an emailed statement.

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Goetz, AGR and eight other linked companies will have their U.S.-based assets blocked under the sanctions, it said.

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When To Use

What does agr- mean?

Agr- is a combining form used like a prefix meaning “field,” "soil," or "crop production." It is very occasionally used in technical terms, especially in agriculture.Agr- is a variant of agro- (from Greek agrós, “tilled land”) or agri- (extracted from agriculture and rooted in the Latin ager, “field”), which loses their -o- or -i-, respectively, when combined with words or word elements beginning with vowels.Want to know more? Read our Words That Use articles for agro- and agri-.