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| Domain | Definition |
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. | |
| 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. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
ADR | Danish | ADR værdipapir(depotbevis)udstedt af en amerikansk bank | Finance |
ADR | English | Automatic Data Retrieval | N/A |
ADR | Finnish | Amerikkalainen talletustodistus | Finance |
ADR | French | Accident de référence | N/A |
AdR | German | Ausschuss der Regionen | European Union |
ADR | Italian | Rotta a servizio consultivo | N/A |
ADR | Spanish | Depósito de acciones extranjeras | Finance |
ADR | Swedish | Amerikanskt depåbevis | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: ADR |
| Specialty definitions using "ADR": American depositary receipt ♦ dangerous goods. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Der Zahnarzt Auf Dem Lande. / Adr. Brouwer px. W. Woernle sc. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 55.56% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 22.22% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 22.22% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "ADR": mct-adr. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency 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. | |||
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). | |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 44 52 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -.. .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01000100 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A D R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0044 0052 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)353852 |
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