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Ar
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AR
ARabbreviationannual return.
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A/R
A/Raccount receivable.
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ar-
ar-variant of ad- before r: arrears.
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-ar
-arvariant of the adjective-forming suffix -al, joined to words in which an l precedes the suffix: circular; lunar; singular .
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ar.
ar.abbreviationarrival.
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a.r.
a.r.abbreviationall risks.
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A.R.
A.R.abbreviationannual return.
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Ar.
Ar.abbreviationArabia(n)
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ar
arabbreviationArgentina
Ar
1 Americanabbreviation
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account receivable.
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accounts receivable.
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arrival.
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arrive; arrives.
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annual return.
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Army Regulation; Army Regulations.
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Arkansas
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Autonomous Region
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Also: A/R. (in the US and Canada) accounts receivable
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Arabia(n)
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Also: Ar. Arabic
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Usage
What else does AR mean? AR can stand for hundreds of things, but here are three of the big ones: augmented reality, alternate reality, and ArmaLite rifle. How do you pronounce AR?[ ey-ahr ]
Etymology
Origin of -ar
< Latin -āris; replacing Middle English -er < Anglo-French, Old French < Latin -āris
Vocabulary lists containing ar
Example Sentences
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So in Rita's memory, he walks the same route from the Pont Ar Daf car park to the peak at 886m.
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2026
Among them are more than 160 prominent figures, including author Ayse Kulin and actress Mujde Ar.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
While most who patronize Ar de Rock don’t go to Mass, she added, some become curious enough to ask about worship times.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 9, 2023
Her imam, Musa Kabba, of Masjid Ar Rahmah, said she was away from the apartment for up to 40 minutes before fire trucks arrived.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2019
He did not come up the course of the Ar like most people, but down, out of the forests of the higher mountainside.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Investigators searched the man’s home and found an “illegally modified AR platform rifle,” a pistol, magazines, ammunition and body armor, among other things.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
But a series of product disappointments and overly ambitious promises have left AR in the dust.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
Critics question the merits of Snap’s decision to double down on AR spending, as well as some of the design and pricing choices made with this latest iteration of the glasses.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 2026
Snap later began shifting towards AR, offering new Spectacles in 2021 to a "select group of global creators" in the field.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
He handed each of us a small piece of paper which read Trans-Texas Airways: Pine Bluff, AR, to Little Rock, AR.
From "The Lions of Little Rock" by Kristin Levine
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“Automate revenue and coding from clinical activity to reduce administrative overhead, avoid missing charges, reduce A/R days and increase total revenue,” the company’s website says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2021
"Money that stays too long in A/R is a disaster waiting to happen," Rohr says.
From Inc ● Feb. 19, 2010
Salesmen for the GSCI and other commodity indexes ar- gued that their products were an important way to diversify in- vestment portfolios.
From MSNBC ● Jun. 4, 2014
Rolling end over end in a flash flood in a big ar- royo.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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Starting in fall 1793, British troops began ar- riving in Saint Domingue to reenslave people and return them to their sugar plantations.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
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And I, Sam Gribley, felt just wonderful, just wonder- I pushed the raft down the stream and gathered ar- rowleaf bulbs, cattail tubers, bulrush roots, and the nutlike tubers of the sedges.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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In other words, the stage was very shallow, and appears to have been ar- ranged for a number of performers standing in a line, like a company of soldiers.
From A Little Tour in France by Henry James
Archiās, declension of, 22. -ar, declension of nouns in, 39. arguō, constr.,
From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett
Some nouns of this decl. take -ar in the gen. sing., especially proper names, such as Hākon, gen.
From Icelandic Primer with Grammar, Notes and Glossary by Henry Sweet
Nouns ending in -a, -e, -i, -y, -o, -l, -n, -t, -ar, -ur, -ŭs are Neuter.
From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett
These end in the Nominative Singular in -e, -al, and -ar.
From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett
Instead of the infinitive moods and plural numbers ending in -n as in Holland, the former end in -a, the latter in -ar.
From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
Sa. a lion ramp., ar. within a bordure engr. or.
From Notes and Queries, 1850.12.21 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. by George Bell
C–F, development of the spore fruit, × 300. ar. archicarp.
From Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses by Douglas Houghton Campbell
Fig. 55.—Longitudinal section of a nearly full-grown sporogonium of Madotheca, which has not, however, broken through the overlying cells, × 25. sp. cavity in which the spores are formed. ar. abortive archegonium.
From Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses by Douglas Houghton Campbell
F, a female prothallium, seen from below, × 12. ar. archegonia.
From Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses by Douglas Houghton Campbell
Crest—"A lion's gamb couped ar., grasping a broken tilting lance, the spear end pendant gu."
From Dorothy Payne, Quakeress A Side-Light upon the Career of 'Dolly' Madison by Ella Kent Barnard
Pay Roll. a.r. 1315-1383.—The pay roll is made out monthly in triplicate, one copy being retained and two copies being sent to the Quartermaster.
From Military Instructors Manual by Oliver Schoonmaker
Drawing on work by the scholar John Wood, Ms. Kimber proposes that Murry was not Mansfield’s most significant emotional and professional relationship; that claim properly belongs to a man called A.R.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
“Indeed, it has become clear to the State, through conversations with more than one person in contact with her, that A.R. is actively thwarting attempts to serve her to avoid coming to court,” Ahsens wrote.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 3, 2024
He noted that the same woman first accused Carter in criminal investigations in Florida, where the alleged incidents took place, and Pennsylvania, where A.R. lived in 2003.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2023
Mr. Kimbrough received strong reviews for his performance in the 1995 production of A.R.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2023
A.R., anno regni=In the year of the reign.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
They found that Ar. ramidus still favored the kind of C3 plants that apes prefer, suggesting that it was still spending a lot of time in woodlands.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 12, 2012
Ar. with father and mother Cogan, Mrs. George.
From Some Reminiscences of old Victoria by Edgar Fawcett
Ar. single; gold miner, then engaged in retail business Harrison, Mrs. Eli, Sr. July.
From Some Reminiscences of old Victoria by Edgar Fawcett
Ar. young, with father and mother; now with firm of E. B. Marvin & Co.
From Some Reminiscences of old Victoria by Edgar Fawcett
Ar. asÐsum?t, pl. of asÐsamt a way, or perh., a point of the horizon and a circle extending to it from the zenith, as being the Arabic article: cf.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
Two forensic experts, who looked at the case recently for S4C's Byd ar Bedwar programme, said there was reason to believe another person may have been involved in the deaths.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2025
The United Nations says millions of Afghans ar facing a second winter without enough to eat.
From Reuters ● Jul. 26, 2022
Un ddraig ar y crys, Jules Rimet yn dal i ddisgleirio.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 24, 2022
Cam Talbot made 28 saves to help the Wild extended ar franchise record with their 10th straight home win.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 24, 2021
The pianos plink along softly; it sounds as if a dozen are playing all ar once, as if the sound comes from every point of the compass.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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