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ASR

American  

abbreviation

  1. airport surveillance radar.

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

  3. automatic speech recognition.


Example Sentences

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Exiting business while keeping a stake looks like a modus operandi that suits Aegon, he says, referring to the sale of its Dutch operations to ASR Nederland in 2023.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

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 • Jan. 23, 2026

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 • Dec. 14, 2023

J&J's DePuy Orthopaedics unit in 2013 announced it would pay up to $2.5 billion to resolve cases by people alleging injuries caused by its metal-on-metal ASR hip-replacement systems.

From Reuters • Nov. 12, 2021

Its ASR, TTS and DSC technologies were licensed to companies in telecommunications, computers and multimedia, consumer electronics and automotive electronics.

From The Internet and Languages [around the year 2000] by Lebert, Marie