dr
1 Americanabbreviation
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debit.
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debtor.
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drachma; drachmas.
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dram; drams.
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drawer.
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drum.
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Doctor.
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Drive (used in street names).
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debtor
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Also: dr.. dram
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drawer
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debit
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Also: dr. dram
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(the former) drachma
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Doctor
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(in street names) Drive
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Example Sentences
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Despite affecting a such a wide portion of the population, the condition is widely misunderstood, according to dyslexia researcher Dr. Helen Taylor of the University of Cambridge.
From Los Angeles Times
But Dr. Prasad’s exit from the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research doesn’t solve the problem.
Dr. Prasad became the face of the agency’s turmoil, but Dr. Makary made it possible.
He brought Dr. Prasad in, empowered him and elevated deputies who treated the patient-focused flexibility built into rare-disease regulation as a flaw rather than a necessity.
Dr. Prasad’s departure doesn’t mean that faction is gone.
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