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Ar
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AR
ARabbreviationannual return.
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A/R
A/Raccount receivable.
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ar-variant of ad- before r: arrears.
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-ar
-arvariant of the adjective-forming suffix -al, joined to words in which an l precedes the suffix: circular; lunar; singular .
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ar.
ar.abbreviationarrival.
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a.r.
a.r.abbreviationall risks.
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A.R.
A.R.abbreviationannual return.
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Ar.
Ar.abbreviationArabia(n)
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ar
arabbreviationArgentina
Ar
1 Americanabbreviation
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account receivable.
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accounts receivable.
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arrival.
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arrive; arrives.
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annual return.
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Army Regulation; Army Regulations.
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Arkansas
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Autonomous Region
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Also: A/R. (in the US and Canada) accounts receivable
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Arabia(n)
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Also: Ar. Arabic
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Usage
What else does AR mean? AR can stand for hundreds of things, but here are three of the big ones: augmented reality, alternate reality, and ArmaLite rifle. How do you pronounce AR?[ ey-ahr ]
Etymology
Origin of -ar
< Latin -āris; replacing Middle English -er < Anglo-French, Old French < Latin -āris
Vocabulary lists containing ar
Example Sentences
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Among them are more than 160 prominent figures, including author Ayse Kulin and actress Mujde Ar.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
While most who patronize Ar de Rock don’t go to Mass, she added, some become curious enough to ask about worship times.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 9, 2023
The topic is heavy, but — in yet another surprise — this memoir about depression has been a best seller in Brazil, where it was originally published as “O Ar Que Me Falta,” in 2021.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2023
At the royals' arrival at the Senedd a fanfare will be played, and WNO youth opera will perform Ar Lan y Môr.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2021
He did not come up the course of the Ar like most people, but down, out of the forests of the higher mountainside.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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But a series of product disappointments and overly ambitious promises have left AR in the dust.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
According to estimates from activist investor Irenic Capital Management, Snap has spent more than $3.5 billion so far on AR hardware, based on assumptions about average annual spending and the cost of an AR acquisition.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 2026
But Snap will have to convince people that it’s worth paying $2,195 for a pair of AR glasses with more tech features.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
It’s also worked on a prototype of AR glasses called Orion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
I knew she would say “Breakfast” And once she did, I went home that afternoon and told my mom that my health teacher said the most important meal of the day is breakfast AR: Ahhh!
From "The Landry News" by Andrew Clements
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“Automate revenue and coding from clinical activity to reduce administrative overhead, avoid missing charges, reduce A/R days and increase total revenue,” the company’s website says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2021
"Money that stays too long in A/R is a disaster waiting to happen," Rohr says.
From Inc ● Feb. 19, 2010
Salesmen for the GSCI and other commodity indexes ar- gued that their products were an important way to diversify in- vestment portfolios.
From MSNBC ● Jun. 4, 2014
Rolling end over end in a flash flood in a big ar- royo.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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Starting in fall 1793, British troops began ar- riving in Saint Domingue to reenslave people and return them to their sugar plantations.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
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And I, Sam Gribley, felt just wonderful, just wonder- I pushed the raft down the stream and gathered ar- rowleaf bulbs, cattail tubers, bulrush roots, and the nutlike tubers of the sedges.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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Ye'll find, Hinnissy, that 'tis on'y ar- rmies fights in th' open.
From Mr. Dooley's Philosophy by Dunne, Finley Peter
Nouns ending in -a, -e, -i, -y, -o, -l, -n, -t, -ar, -ur, -ŭs are Neuter.
From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)
Instead of the infinitive moods and plural numbers ending in -n as in Holland, the former end in -a, the latter in -ar.
From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
Archiās, declension of, 22. -ar, declension of nouns in, 39. arguō, constr.,
From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)
These end in the Nominative Singular in -e, -al, and -ar.
From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)
Tree = arb‑o; suf. -ar denotes a collection of trees. 9To turn.
From International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar by Clark, Walter John
Fig. 55.—Longitudinal section of a nearly full-grown sporogonium of Madotheca, which has not, however, broken through the overlying cells, × 25. sp. cavity in which the spores are formed. ar. abortive archegonium.
From Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses by Campbell, Douglas Houghton
G, young sporogonium still surrounded by the much enlarged base of the archegonium. h, neck of the archegonium. ar. abortive archegonia, × 12.
From Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses by Campbell, Douglas Houghton
This stage is called the gastrula stage; ar. is the cavity of the gastrula, the archenteron; b.p. is its opening or blastopore.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
The shield was—Per fesse embattled, ar. and sa., three falcons, belted, countercharged—a bend sinister.
From Notes and Queries, Number 47, September 21, 1850 by Various
The Baskerville arms—Ar. a chevron gu. between three hurts, impaling, quarterly, one and four, or, a cross moline az, two and three, gu. a chevron ar. between three mallets or—are painted on the panels.
From Notes and Queries, Number 231, April 1, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George
Pay Roll. a.r. 1315-1383.—The pay roll is made out monthly in triplicate, one copy being retained and two copies being sent to the Quartermaster.
From Military Instructors Manual by Schoonmaker, Oliver
Drawing on work by the scholar John Wood, Ms. Kimber proposes that Murry was not Mansfield’s most significant emotional and professional relationship; that claim properly belongs to a man called A.R.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
“Indeed, it has become clear to the State, through conversations with more than one person in contact with her, that A.R. is actively thwarting attempts to serve her to avoid coming to court,” Ahsens wrote.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 3, 2024
Several days later, in early September, the suit alleges, the singer and his sister, Angel Carter, encouraged A.R. to meet Nick Carter in the lounge area of a bus on the Carters’ Florida property.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2023
Over the last two years, Mr. Zuckerberg’s company has plunged billions of dollars into its Reality Labs division, which is responsible for those V.R. and A.R. efforts, and changed its name from Facebook to Meta.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2022
Eight of the plates are in color, and ninety-six in black and white for the most part from photographs by A.R.
From A Mother's List of Books for Children by Arnold, Gertrude Weld
They found that Ar. ramidus still favored the kind of C3 plants that apes prefer, suggesting that it was still spending a lot of time in woodlands.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 12, 2012
Ar. amÆrÏalÏbahr commander of the sea; Ar. amÆr is commander, al is the Ar. article, and amÆrÏal, heard in different titles, was taken as one word.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
Ar. young, with father and mother; now with firm of E. B. Marvin & Co.
From Some Reminiscences of old Victoria by Fawcett, Edgar
Ar. alÐkohl a powder of antimony or galena, to paint the eyebrows with.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
Ar. with husband; now widow in this city Seward, Thomas W. May.
From Some Reminiscences of old Victoria by Fawcett, Edgar
It was produced and directed by Ed Thomas, whose latest production Pren ar y Bryn/Tree on a Hill is also being filmed in both languages.
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2023
The United Nations says millions of Afghans ar facing a second winter without enough to eat.
From Reuters ● Jul. 26, 2022
Un ddraig ar y crys, Jules Rimet yn dal i ddisgleirio.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 24, 2022
Cam Talbot made 28 saves to help the Wild extended ar franchise record with their 10th straight home win.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 24, 2021
Bryng us in no eggys, for ther ar many schelles.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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