dr
A title for a doctor, used before a name.
A title used before a person’s name to show they are a medical doctor or have a doctorate.
Short for Drive in an address.
An abbreviation of Drive, used in street names and addresses.
A short way to say the Dominican Republic.
A written abbreviation for the Dominican Republic, especially in informal contexts.
Short for Democratic Republic in some country names.
A written abbreviation for Democratic Republic, used in some country names, especially in the name of DR Congo.
Plans to keep a business running after a big problem.
In business and IT, an abbreviation for disaster recovery: the plans and actions used to restore systems and operations after a serious disruption.
- Base: dr
- Plural: drs
dr congo
1the Democratic Republic of the Congo
A short name for the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- She worked as a nurse in DR Congo for two years.
- The article compares rainfall patterns across DR Congo.
- They import coffee from DR Congo.
- He is from DR Congo.
dr plan
1disaster recovery plan
A written plan for recovering after a disaster.
- We updated the DR plan to include the new cloud database.
- Auditors asked to see our DR plan and recent test results.
- The DR plan lists who to contact and which systems to restore first.
dr site
1backup location for recovery
A backup place where systems can run in an emergency.
- If the main data center goes down, we fail over to the DR site.
- The DR site is in a different region to reduce shared risks.
- They upgraded the DR site to match the production environment.
dr test
1test of disaster recovery
A practice test to see if recovery plans work.
- We run a DR test every quarter.
- The DR test failed because the backup keys had expired.
- A full DR test can require downtime and careful coordination.