dr
abbreviation
door.
dr
1 American
Dr
2
American
abbreviation
Chiefly British.
DR
3
American
abbreviation
dr.
4
American
abbreviation
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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.
Dr.
5
American
abbreviation
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Doctor.
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Drive (used in street names).
D.R.
6
American
dr
1
British
abbreviation
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debtor
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Also: dr.. dram
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drawer
dr.
2
British
abbreviation
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debit
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Also: dr. dram
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(the former) drachma
Dr
3
British
abbreviation
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Doctor
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(in street names) Drive
DR
4
British
abbreviation
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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
What are the possible values of ∮CF · dr ?
From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016
Since ∫ F • dr ≠ ∫ F • dr, the value of a line integral of F depends on the path between two given points.
From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016
He shook Horace by the jaw and shouted, “What dr aw erf!”
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
The trust's founder, Dr Margaret Bradshaw, said the group wanted to raise awareness of the fragility of special flora in the area.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Dr Nugud says South Hospital is also set to reopen.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
Clinical psychologist Dr Kirren Schnack says health anxiety is "a constant worry about being seriously ill or becoming seriously ill when you are not".
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
"Many professional sports teams use only willing humans as mascots and the club already has Pete the Eagle to excite the crowd," said Dr Carys Bennett, Peta's senior corporate projects manager.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
The only other person I’ve ever known who’s written a book is Dr.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
Nigeria's health minister confirmed the woman had had no symptoms when she arrived in Nigeria, but he said the patient had not confirmed travel to DR Congo.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
Uganda had reported two Ebola deaths shortly after the outbreak was reported in DR Congo, but the WHO has since declared it to be free of the disease.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
The Kenyan businessman had travelled through Uganda on his way home from DR Congo.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
The other three also come from the AFC-M23 alliance which last year seized much of mineral-rich eastern DR Congo.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
There was a bar across the bottom of the screen that read, DR.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
"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
Forced currency was first introduced in 1868, when 15,000,000 dr. in paper money was issued; it was abolished in the following year, but reintroduced in 1877 with a paper issue of 44,000,000 dr.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various
I will soon remouve my dr. mistres jelousies, if she has any .
From Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles by Andrew Lang
It is then made up to 4 oz. with boiling water, and, when cold, a solution of 1 dr. of ammonium chloride in 2 oz. of water is added.
From The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do by Popular Mechanics Co.
In the hilarious opening monologue Argan sits coddled in his chair—sort of a baroque Barcalounger—going over his treatments and the hefty prices charged for them by his “primary care physician,” Dr. Purgon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Dr. Jan Schönig at Göttingen University's Geoscience Center explains: "Finding this change from hot to cold subduction was unexpected as this contradicts our current thermal models of subduction zones."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
In 2015, Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, pledged to give away 99% of his Facebook shares over their lifetimes when they celebrated the birth of their first daughter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
“Sometimes in medicine we do all the right things, and diseases progress and other things develop,” said Dr. Allen Sills, the NFL’s chief medical officer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
"I think you have been shown that the subsequent history and progress of the case only warrant us in saying that physically, the recovery was quite complete," says Dr. Harlow.
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
The downshift is based on both the past nine months of results and current market conditions, D.R.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
"Oh D.R. me that was close!" it laments.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
Shares of two large builders, PulteGroup and D.R.
From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026
His father was a Dominican migrant worker who met his mother picking blueberries in Cherryfield, got her pregnant, moved back to the D.R. to shack up with a local girl, and never looked back.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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