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Cr

1 American  
Symbol, Chemistry.
  1. chromium.


CR 2 American  

abbreviation

  1. conditioned reflex; conditioned response.

  2. consciousness-raising.

  3. Biology, Ecology. critically endangered.

  4. critical ratio.


cr. 3 American  

abbreviation

  1. credit.

  2. creditor.

  3. crown.


C.R. 4 American  

abbreviation

  1. Costa Rica.

  2. Banking. credit report.


CR 1 British  

abbreviation

  1. Community of the Resurrection

  2. Costa Rica

  3. Costa Rica (international car registration)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Cr 2 British  

abbreviation

  1. Councillor

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

symbol

  1. chromium

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
cr. 3 British  

abbreviation

  1. credit

  2. creditor

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

cr 4 British  

abbreviation

  1. Costa Rica

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Example Sentences

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Unfortunately, this conventional single-passivation mechanism based on Cr has halted further advancement of stainless steel.

From Science Daily Nov. 17, 2023

Isomorphous metals with a BCC structure include K, Ba, Cr, Mo, W, and Fe at room temperature.

From Textbooks Feb. 14, 2019

When the Cr is forced into this environment, its electronic states become altered, which changes the way the material absorbs and emits light.

From Scientific American Nov. 25, 2013

Aurora; Cal R. Thurlby, 55, of the 1200 block of Townes Cr.,

From Chicago Tribune Jan. 13, 2012

H. Brewin, George —— —— —— —— Boughman, Lewis Barry Nov. 18, 1863 Dec. 31, 1863 Missing in action at Sabine Cr.

From The History of Company A, Second Illinois Cavalry by Samuel H. Fletcher

That feedback gives CR a deep well of data on specific brands and very little on others.

From MarketWatch Dec. 8, 2025

To build its rankings, CR says, it says, it required “data for at least two models, from a minimum of two of the 2023, 2024, 2025, or early 2026 model years.”

From MarketWatch Dec. 8, 2025

CR Coffee Shop in the New Orleans area raised the price of a cup of drip coffee from $3.35 to $3.65 in late September because of higher wholesale prices.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 3, 2025

"Statements by the vice president, or anyone else for that matter, didn’t factor into my vote for the CR at all," Golden said.

From Salon Mar. 14, 2025

The condenser CR offers a low impedance to the radio-frequency current to which the winding T2 of audio-frequency transformer offers too much.

From Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son by John Mills

People's Edition, 1 vol. cr. 8vo. 4s. 6d.

From Roumania Past and Present by James Samuelson

Liberty, a poem, 1st part cr. 8vo, No. 3000, and 250 fine copies.

From A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898 by Alfred W. (Alfred William) Pollard

One Vol., cr. 8vo, cloth extra. 7s. 6d.

From The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories by Grant Allen

One Vol., cr. 8vo, cloth extra, 7s. 6d.

From The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies by Sir Walter Besant

In 5 Vols., cr. 8vo, 6s. net each, or 30s. net the set.

From Chatto & Windus Alphabetical Catalogue of Books in Fiction and General Literature, Sept. 1905 by Chatto & Windus (Firm)

The range is a "physical barrier for dust storms and heat waves" from the western Thar desert, said ecologist C.R.

From Barron's May 31, 2026

That Sunday, the FBI jet landed in San Angelo, Texas, where Patel visited the Boondoggle Ranch, owned by the family of a Republican donor and friend of Patel’s, C.R.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 12, 2025

BlackPast also lists dozens of surprising “firsts” that rarely make it into history books, such as the story of America’s first Black-owned car company: C.R.

From Seattle Times Mar. 1, 2023

Ms. Skamser said a debt collection agency was pursuing her for $6,000 that C.R.

From New York Times Apr. 5, 2022

Same as Act I, and table L.C., and chair moved to C.R., nearer center.

From Green Stockings A Comedy in Three Acts by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodle) Mason

Haridwar, Uttarakhand | Parents move court against son&daughter-in-law, demand grandchildren/Rs 5 cr compensation.

From BBC May 12, 2022

Perhaps this is why mine are so cr… er, amateurish.

From The Guardian Jun. 6, 2014

One G. F. Flanders, G. O. Patronage man cr Georgia's Twelfth District, declared he could sell every postmastership, if he wanted to, which he didn't.

From Time Magazine Archive

The mother is often apt to quote diagnostic terms obtained through reading or from previous medical, osteopathic, or chiropractic consultations cr from some supposedly enlightened relative or neighbor.

From Time Magazine Archive

—Poet, b. in Norfolk, and ed. at Oxf. and Camb., of both of which he was cr.

From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. (John William) Cousin

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