DR

See also: Appendix:Variations of "dr"

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

DR (not comparable)

1. (pathology) Initialism of drug-resistant (used to refer to strains of tuberculosis).

   Antonym: DS

Hyponyms

• MDR
• TDR
• XDR

Derived terms

• DR-TB
• MDR
• MDR-TB
• TDR
• TDR-TB
• XDR
• XDR-TB

Noun

DR (plural DRs)

1. (information technology) Initialism of disaster recovery.
2. (nautical, navigation) Initialism of dead reckoning.
3. (SEO) Initialism of domain rating.
4. (politics) Initialism of dissident right.
   • 2022 October 28, The Original Roland Rat (@OGRolandRat), Twitter‎^[1]:

     […] His podcast is probably the best show in the entire DR.

5. (New Thought) Initialism of desired reality.

   shifting to my fame DR

6. Initialism of data release.
8. Initialism of death rate.

Proper noun

DR

1. Initialism of Dominican Republic.

Etymology 2

Probably from Latin dēbēre.

Noun

DR (uncountable)

1. (accounting) Debit.

   Antonym: CR

Anagrams

• -rd, R&D, RD, Rd., rd, rd.

Portuguese

Noun

DR f (plural DRs)

1. abbreviation of discussão de relacionamento (“lovers' argument, dispute, quarrel”)