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  • tr.
    tr.
    abbreviation
    tare.
  • T.R.
    T.R.
    abbreviation
    in the time of the king.
  • TR
    TR
    abbreviation
    Turkey (international car registration)
  • tr
    tr
    abbreviation
    treasurer

tr.

1 American  

abbreviation

  1. tare.

  2. tincture.

  3. trace.

  4. train.

  5. transaction.

  6. transitive.

  7. translated.

  8. translation.

  9. translator.

  10. transpose.

  11. transposition.

  12. treasurer.

  13. Music. trill.

  14. troop.

  15. trust.

  16. trustee.


T.R. 2 American  

abbreviation

  1. in the time of the king.


T.R. 3 American  

abbreviation

  1. Theodore Roosevelt.

  2. tons registered.

  3. trust receipt.


tr. 1 British  

abbreviation

  1. transitive

  2. translated

  3. music trill

"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

TR 2 British  

abbreviation

  1. Turkey (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

tr 3 British  

abbreviation

  1. treasurer

"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

tr 4 British  

abbreviation

  1. Turkey

"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

Etymology

Origin of T.R.

From Latin tempore rēgis


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Seceded in 1843, afterwards tr. to Aberdeen. 1843-1844—Chapel vacant. 1844-1858—DAVID BONALLO, tr. to Blackford.

From Chronicles of Strathearn by W. B. Macdougall

BANNATYNE, died. 1648-1688—ROBERT FREEBAIRN, A.M., died. 1676-1680—DAVID FREEBAIRN, A.M., tr. to Auchterarder.

From Chronicles of Strathearn by W. B. Macdougall

History of my time: Memoirs, ed. by the Duc d'Audiffret-Pasquier, tr. by C. E. Roche.

From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) by William Milligan Sloane

—From the Hebrew, tr. by Frederic Rowland Marvin.

From Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul by James Mudge

—From the Mahabharata, tr. by Frederic Rowland Marvin.

From Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul by James Mudge

A quick search on TikTok turns up reactions to plot points that occurred years ago, such as the death of T.R.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2024

“With the fast pace of this industry, we’re going to manage the business smartly for these rapidly evolving priorities,” Ford spokesman T.R.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 23, 2022

“Priorities of the business are changing and expanding to include EVs, which will be predominant over time, and we’re reinventing the business in terms of how we do things,” T.R.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 22, 2022

"They're constantly trying to encroach on the usable rooftop," T.R.

From Salon ● May 20, 2022

I fixed my eyes on Lightfoot as if she was one of Granny’s angels come to fetch me, and put my arms tight around T.R.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

TR was conservative and progressive, internationalist and nationalist, conservationist and hunter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

Although TR expansions constitute about 6 percent of our genome and substantially contribute to complex congenial conditions, scientific understanding of them remains limited.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 5, 2024

But Ford spokesman TR Reid confirmed Monday that plant construction has been paused and spending has been limited on it.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 25, 2023

TR We used to go to vintage shops and buy things and put together as many things as possible.

From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2023

TR: Poor quality made it difficult to verify the above numbers and so noted with an asterisk A vessel containing one ounce of water, filled up with this alcohol, weighs only 16dwts. and 16grs.

From The Art of Making Whiskey So As to Obtain a Better, Purer, Cheaper and Greater Quantity of Spirit, From a Given Quantity of Grain by C. M.

The other half of the prize was given tr.

From Time Magazine Archive

Only he does that thing where he pronounces tr like an f.

From "Free Lunch" by Rex Ogle

Malleson, 1876; Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, 1873; tr.

From The Secret of the Island by William Henry Giles Kingston

A few of Dr. Winckler’s renderings are quoted in the Index, and marked—Winckler’s tr.

From The Oldest Code of Laws in the World The code of laws promulgated by Hammurabi, King of Babylon B.C. 2285-2242 by C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns

Mao tino. nono v. i., to place the face against, to sniff, to kiss; nono faini, to kiss. nonoi v. tr.

From Grammar and Vocabulary of the Lau Language, Solomon Islands by W. G. (Walter George) Ivens

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