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    dr
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    Dr
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  • DR
    DR
    abbreviation
    dining room.
  • dr.
    dr.
    abbreviation
    debit.
  • Dr.
    Dr.
    abbreviation
    Doctor.
  • D.R.
    D.R.
    abbreviation
    Daughters of the (American) Revolution.

dr

1 American  

abbreviation

  1. door.

  2. dram; drams.


Dr 2 American  

abbreviation

Chiefly British.
  1. Doctor.


DR 3 American  

abbreviation

  1. Real Estate. dining room.


dr. 4 American  

abbreviation

  1. debit.

  2. debtor.

  3. drachma; drachmas.

  4. dram; drams.

  5. drawer.

  6. drum.


Dr. 5 American  

abbreviation

  1. Doctor.

  2. Drive (used in street names).


D.R. 6 American  

abbreviation

  1. Daughters of the (American) Revolution.

  2. Navigation. dead reckoning.

  3. Dutch Reformed.


dr 1 British  

abbreviation

  1. debtor

  2. Also: dr..  dram

  3. drawer

"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

dr. 2 British  

abbreviation

  1. debit

  2. Also: dr.  dram

  3. (the former) drachma

"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

Dr 3 British  

abbreviation

  1. Doctor

  2. (in street names) Drive

"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

DR 4 British  

abbreviation

  1. dry riser

"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

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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

Evaluate ∮CF · dr for F = ⟨ 0, −z, 2y ⟩ , where C has a counterclockwise orientation when viewed from above.

From Textbooks Mar. 30, 2016

The area dA in polar coordinates becomes r dr dθ.

From Textbooks Mar. 30, 2016

He shook Horace by the jaw and shouted, “What dr aw erf!”

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

And when it burns, says Dr Nisa, that fossilised carbon can be released into the atmosphere "very rapidly".

From BBC Sep. 6, 2026

Dr Susan Taheri is an NHS GP at Bow Medical Practice and the founder of Growing Well Garden project - she said the scheme reignited her passion for being a GP.

From BBC Sep. 5, 2026

Above all, says Dr Britto, it's about making sure children feel a sense of belonging.

From BBC Sep. 5, 2026

"An MP can do this by requesting, and accepting, office as either the Steward and Bailiff of the Chiltern Hundreds, or Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead," wrote Dr Martin Spychal.

From BBC Sep. 5, 2026

But I don’t want to talk about it in front of Dr.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

The worst outbreak previously recorded in DR Congo left nearly 2,300 people dead from 3,500 reported cases between 2018 and 2020.

From Barron's Sep. 2, 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

On Tuesday, the Eswatini government said two people who had been deported from the US to the southern African kingdom had voluntarily returned to their home countries: Mauritania and DR Congo.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

I think...I think we’re all going to have to go back to the DR.

From "Harbor Me" by Jacqueline Woodson

"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

The garden is shadier than before. abud is still working. carnaby leete comes from the house followed by dr. remnant.

From Three Plays by Granville-Barker The Marrying of Ann Leete; The Voysey Inheritance; Waste by Harley Granville-Barker

The university receives a subvention from the state, which in 1905 amounted to 563,960 dr.; it possesses a library of over 150,000 volumes and geological, zoological and botanical museums.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various

A remarkable feature has been the rapid fall in the exchange since 1903; the gold franc, which stood at 1.63 dr. in 1902, had fallen to 1.08 in October 1906.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously said, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 5, 2026

Dr. Jessica Ericson, a pediatric infectious disease physician at Penn State Health Golisano Children’s Hospital, hadn’t seen a measles case in her 15 years in medicine until this June.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

Mr. Stevens will never shed having played the dreamy Matthew Crawley on “Downton Abbey,” but he appears to be having the time of his life playing this variant of Dr. Evil.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 3, 2026

"Authentic creative expression is so much more than a pleasant distraction," continued Dr. Khalil.

From Science Daily Sep. 3, 2026

Explaining the importance of her son's case to science, Dr. Harlow recalls how many scoffed at Phineas when Dr. Bigelow first presented his case in Boston.

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

"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

The legal liabilities of some of America’s biggest home builders, including D.R.

From The Wall Street Journal May 18, 2026

“Yes, blit all they put on Dominican radio be D.R. music, merengue and such. They not so interested in Haitian politics in Dominican Republic.”

From "Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti" by Frances Temple

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