| Acronym | Definition |
|---|
| CDR | Commander |
| CDR | Compact Disc Recordable |
| CDR | CorelDRAW File (file extension) |
| CDR | Call-Detail Record |
| CDR | Critical Design Review |
| CDR | Central Data Repository |
| CDR | Conductor (music) |
| CDR | Clock and Data Recovery |
| CDR | Call Detail Recording |
| CDR | Chris Douglas-Roberts (former University of Memphis Basketball Player) |
| CDR | Commission on Dietetic Registration |
| CDR | Clinical Data Repository |
| CDR | Complementarity Determining Regions (immunology) |
| CDR | Clinical Dementia Rating |
| CDR | Crude Death Rate |
| CDR | Continuing Disability Review |
| CDR | Corporate Debt Restructuring |
| CDR | Centre de Ressources (French: Resource Center; various organizations) |
| CDR | Call Data Record |
| CDR | Common Drug Review (Canada) |
| CDR | Combatant Commander (formerly CINC, Commander in Chief) |
| CDR | Centre de Recherche (French: Research Center) |
| CDR | Communicable Disease Report |
| CDR | Center for Design Research (Stanford) |
| CDR | Centre for Development Research (Copenhagen) |
| CDR | Combustibile Derivato dai Rifiuti (Italian: Waste-Derived Fuel) |
| CDR | Council for Development and Reconstruction (Lebanon) |
| CDR | Consortium de Realisation (French: Consortium of Achievement; finance) |
| CDR | Call Detail Reporting |
| CDR | Comité de Defensa de la Revolución (Committee of Defense of the Revolution, Cuba) |
| CDR | Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (buyout partnership) |
| CDR | Cohort Default Rate (student loans) |
| CDR | Center for Dairy Research |
| CDR | Common Data Representation |
| CDR | Conceptual Design Report |
| CDR | Center for Democratic Renewal (Atlanta, GA) |
| CDR | Committed Data Rate |
| CDR | Compact Disk Recorder |
| CDR | Contents of Decrement Register |
| CDR | Construction Dispute Resolution |
| CDR | Centre Dramatique Régional (French: Regional Drama Center) |
| CDR | Charging Data Record |
| CDR | Computed Dental Radiography |
| CDR | Columbus Day Regatta (annual sailboat race off the coast of South Florida) |
| CDR | Climate Data Record |
| CDR | Casual Dining Restaurant (sector) |
| CDR | Christian Disaster Response |
| CDR | Contract Discrepancy Report |
| CDR | Cup-Disc Ratio |
| CDR | Certified Diversity Recruiter |
| CDR | Contract Data Requirement |
| CDR | Chadron, NE, USA (Airport Code) |
| CDR | Coded Departure Routes (severe weather air traffic) |
| CDR | Compound Document by Reference |
| CDR | Continuous Data Recording |
| CDR | Cancer Detection Rate |
| CDR | Certificate in Dispute Resolution |
| CDR | Concept Design Review |
| CDR | Common Deleted Region |
| CDR | Contribution au Développement Rural |
| CDR | China Depository Receipts |
| CDR | Constant Density Recording |
| CDR | Contents of Decrement of Register (part of a generalized list without the first element, in LISP) |
| CDR | Call Dial Rerouting |
| CDR | Conditional Default Rate |
| CDR | Canadian Dachshund Rescue (Canada) |
| CDR | Central Data Recorder |
| CDR | Concept Definition Report |
| CDR | Compression Dynamic Range |
| CDR | Connaissance des Religions (French: Knowledge of Religions; journal) |
| CDR | Competition Dirt Riders |
| CDR | Certified Dental Receptionist |
| CDR | Cargo Delivery Receipt |
| CDR | Cash Data Retrieval |
| CDR | Chinese Depositary Receipts |
| CDR | Conceptual Design Requirement |
| CDR | Cargo Drop Reel |
| CDR | Collision Deductible Reduction |
| CDR | Claims Detail Report |
| CDR | Cerebellar Degeneration-Related Autoantigen |
| CDR | Call-Dropping Rate |
| CDR | Crash Damage Repair |
| CDR | Controlled Drug Record |
| CDR | Cleaning, Decontamination Request (NASA) |
| CDR | Concept Development Record |
| CDR | Center for Cooperative Resolution (US NIH) |
| CDR | Container Depot & Repair |
| CDR | Continuous Data Rate |
| CDR | Conical Dielectric Resonator |
| CDR | Creative Development Research |
| CDR | Counterdetection Range |
| CDR | Conoco Drag Reducer |
| CDR | Correlated Data Report |
| CDR | Combat Deployable Radio |
| CDR | Catalogue des Documents de Référence (French: Reference Documents Catalogue; Belgium) |
| CDR | Construire Décorer Rénover (French building renovation company) |
| CDR | Conflict and Dispute Resolution (Master's degree program; University of Oregon) |
| CDR | Child Development Resources (various locations) |
| CDR | Carbon Dioxide Recovery (industrial plants) |
| CDR | Citigate Dewe Rogerson (public relations firm; UK) |
| CDR | Clinical Decision Rule |
| CDR | Coalition of Democratic Reform (Bahamas) |