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  • M.R.E.
    M.R.E.
    abbreviation
    Master of Religious Education.
  • MRE
    MRE
    abbreviation
    meal ready to eat, a US military precooked ration pack

M.R.E.

American  

abbreviation

  1. Master of Religious Education.


MRE British  

abbreviation

  1. meal ready to eat, a US military precooked ration pack

"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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Sitting with his wife, Nasrine, in their small, bare apartment in Houston in December as dusk fell, with his six children running around, he opened the knapsack and at the bottom found an unopened M.R.E.

From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2022

Even YouTube hosts with a broader scope are running M.R.E. taste tests — like Emmy Cho, who runs a popular food channel called EmmyMade.

From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2021

Blair Calder, the owner of Meal Kit Supply in Buffalo, buys M.R.E. components and repackages them in his own retort pouches — a common means of working around the commercial-resale ban.

From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2021

As we load the tracks, the Marines swap little pieces of M.R.E. cake and placed them gently in their mouths like priests placing communion wafers.

From New York Times ● May 25, 2019

We snacked on M.R.E. junk food, tossed our candy wrappers into the wind and waited for the Man of Learning to issue orders.

From New York Times ● Oct. 29, 2014

James McMullin owns MRE Homes, a Northern Virginia developer that builds six or seven new homes a year.

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2025

In December MRE agreed a new energy contract, raising the price of electricity from 18p/kWh to 78p/kWh, covering the first six months of 2023.

From BBC ● May 18, 2023

MRE said CBP guards have reportedly badgered at least three other reporters in airports in New York, Los Angeles and Austin, Texas, in the past year.

From Fox News ● Oct. 4, 2019

I failed in my attempt to track down one last Cheese and Veggie Omelet MRE for old time’s sake.

From Slate ● May 6, 2019

But Digger would turn all that good food down in a heartbeat for a pack of MRE rations.

From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings

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