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ADR

"ADR" is a common misspelling or typo for: ad, add, ado, ads, adz, air.


Specialty Definition: ADR

DomainDefinition

Computing

ADR Astra Digital Radio. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Census

(Alternative Dispute Resolution) A labor relations process designed to settle a dispute by having the parties fashion a resolution, rather than having the dispute decided by a third-party. Uses techniques such as mediation, negotiated rule-making, and mini-trial. May be used instead of, or in conjunction with, traditional litigation or grievance processes. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: ADR

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

ADR

DanishADR værdipapir(depotbevis)udstedt af en amerikansk bankFinance

ADR

EnglishAutomatic Data RetrievalN/A

ADR

FinnishAmerikkalainen talletustodistusFinance

ADR

FrenchAccident de référenceN/A

AdR

GermanAusschuss der RegionenEuropean Union

ADR

ItalianRotta a servizio consultivoN/A

ADR

SpanishDepósito de acciones extranjerasFinance

ADR

SwedishAmerikanskt depåbevisN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: ADR

Synonyms by domain: accumulated doppler range (geography), Adder (computing), Address, Advanced Digital Recording, advisory route (transportation), aerodrome damage repair (military & defense), airfield damage repair, alternative dispute resolution (law), American Deposit Receipt (finance), American depositary receipt, American depository receipt, Application Definition Record (computing), Applied Data Research Inc., Australian Design Rule (transportation), Automatic Data Retrieval (computing, post & telecom), European Agreement concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road (engineering & technology), reference accident (nuclear energy & physics).

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Crosswords: ADR

Specialty definitions using "ADR": American depositary receiptdangerous goods. (references)

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Commercial Usage: ADR

DomainTitle

Books

  • Restructured Adr, Applicable as from 1 July 2001: European Agreement Concerning the International Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: ADR

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Der Zahnarzt Auf Dem Lande. / Adr. Brouwer px. W. Woernle sc. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: ADR

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Bulgaria

An ADR center for domestic business disputes has been established through the Bulgarian Industrial Association. (references)

South Africa

This announcement was made in agreement with ADR despite the fact that ACSA Management is of the opinion that the company is ready for a listing because of its strong financial position. (references)

Romania

Sales of shares take one of the following forms: public offering on the Bucharest Stock Exchange or RASDAQ, negotiation, auction, depositary receipts issued by investment banks on the international capital markets (GDR, ADR, EDR) or a combination of these methods. (references)

Political Economy

Luxembourg

These include: the ADR (an offshoot of the Liberal Party), Déi Gréng (Green and Liberal Alliance) and Déi Lénk (Left Alliance). (references)

Trade

India

Several steps have been taken to improve liquidity in the ADR / GDR market abroad. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: ADR

"ADR" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 55.56% of the time. "ADR" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)55.56%5157,705
Lexical Verb (infinitive)22.22%2245,945
Lexical Verb (base form)22.22%2245,945
                    Total100.00%9N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: ADR

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "ADR": mct-adr.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ADR

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

adr

402

adr akunin

7

adr wheels

375

adr data data recovery services

7

adr amg calsson car cheap cheap crown dazz rim rim rim wheel wheels wheels

145

adr reaction

7

adr rim

143

adr m classic

7

adr.com shareholder

22

adr ii stage

7

adr wheel

17

adr model

6

adr m sport

16

adr racing

6

adr design

16

adr dtm

6

adr kasai

13

adr cypher

6

adr sokudo

13

adr sterling wheels

6

adr sterling

13

adr onstream

5

adr services

11

adr trama

5

adr gt sport

11

adr bank new york

5

1000 adr apex

10

adr transport

5

adr patcher

9

adr china

5

adr training

8

1 450 800 9282 adr data emergency recovery service

5

adr ricochet

8

adr jam

5

adr m sport wheels

8

adr factor x

5

2003 adr

7

adr stock

4

adr demonya

7

adr wheels rim

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: ADR

Derivations

Words beginning with "ADR": adrenal, adrenalectomies, adrenalectomized, adrenalectomy, adrenaline, adrenalines, adrenalized, adrenals, adrenergic, adrenergically, adrenochrome, adrenochromes, adrenocortical, adrenocorticosteroid, adrenocorticosteroids, adrenocorticotrophic, adrenocorticotrophin, adrenocorticotrophins, adrenocorticotropic, adrenocorticotropin, adrenocorticotropins, adrift, adroit, adroiter, adroitest, adroitly, adroitness, adroitnesses. (additional references)

Words containing "ADR": ambassadress, ambassadresses, anadromous, balladries, balladry, beadroll, beadrolls, biquadratic, biquadratics, cadre, cadres, catadromous, chadri, compadre, compadres, cuadrilla, cuadrillas, diadromous, escadrille, escadrilles, espadrille, espadrilles, gadroon, gadrooned, gadrooning, gadroonings, gadroons, hadron, hadronic, hadrons, hadrosaur, hadrosaurs, hamadryad, hamadryades, hamadryads, headrace, headraces, headrest, headrests, headroom, headrooms, ladron, ladrone, ladrones, ladrons, madras, madrases, madre, madrepore, madrepores, madreporian. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: ADR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: rad.

Words within the letters "a-d-r"

-1 letter: ad, ar.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-r"
 

+1 letter: arid, bard, brad, card, darb, dare, dark, darn, dart, dear, drab, drag, dram, drat, draw, dray, dura, fard, grad, hard, lard, nard, orad, pard, rads, raid, rand, read, road, sard, trad, ward, yard.

 

+2 letters: acred, acrid, adder, adore, adorn, aider, aired, alder, arced, ardeb, ardor, armed, aroid, award, barde, bards, bared, beard, board, brads, braid, brand, bread, broad, cadre, caird, cards, cared, cedar, chard, dairy, damar, darbs, dared, darer, dares, daric, darks, darky, darns, darts, dater, deair, dears, deary, debar, denar, derat, deray, derma, dewar, diary, dinar, dobra, dorsa, doura, drabs, draff, draft, drags, drail, drain, drake, drama, drams, drank, drape, drats, drave, drawl, drawn, draws, drays, dread, dream, drear, dryad, dural, duras, durra, dwarf, eared, fader, farad, fards, fared, fraud, grade, grads, grand, guard, hards, hardy, hared, heard, hoard, hydra, irade, lader, laird, lards, lardy, liard, lidar, lyard, madre, mudra, nadir, nards, oared, oread, padre, padri, pardi, pards, pardy, pared, purda, rabid, raced, radar, radii, radio, radix, radon, raged, raids, raked, rands, randy, ranid, raped, rapid, rared, rased, rated, raved, raxed, rayed, razed, readd, reads, ready, redan, redia, roads, sards, sarod, shard, sward, tardo, tardy, tared, trade, tread, triad, wader, wards, wared, yaird, yards.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: ADR


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 44 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    -..    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01000100 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#68 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0044 0052

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

353852

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Abbreviations
11. Acronyms
12. Derivations
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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