| Acronym | Definition |
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| PDR | Physicians' Desk Reference |
| PDR | Paintless Dent Repair (automobiles; various companies) |
| PDR | Professional Development and Research (various locations) |
| PDR | Piece de Resistance |
| PDR | People's Democratic Republic (various nations) |
| PDR | Point of Diminishing Returns |
| PDR | Packet Delivery Ratio |
| PDR | Paul Davis Restoration |
| PDR | Preliminary Design Review |
| PDR | Purchase of Development Rights |
| PDR | Performance and Development Review (appraisal) |
| PDR | Petition for Discretionary Review (law; various locations) |
| PDR | Personal Development Review |
| PDR | Personal Digital Recorder |
| PDR | Payee Data Record (California) |
| PDR | Planning, Development and Rehabilitation (Church of Uganda) |
| PDR | Public Document Room |
| PDR | Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy |
| PDR | Provider Dispute Resolution (various organizations) |
| PDR | Premium Deficiency Reserve |
| PDR | Preliminary Data Requirements |
| PDR | Pen Drive Reader |
| PDR | Portable Digital Recorder |
| PDR | Project Development Review |
| PDR | Please Don't Rush |
| PDR | Public Data Release (US EPA) |
| PDR | Plan, Do, Review (various organizations) |
| PDR | Power Distribution Rack (computing) |
| PDR | Philadelphia Department of Recreation (Philadelphia, PA) |
| PDR | Polymorphism Discovery Resource |
| PDR | Peak Data Rate |
| PDR | Private Dining Room |
| PDR | Personal Development Record |
| PDR | Production/Distribution/Repair |
| PDR | Pizza De Resistance (restaurant) |
| PDR | Post-Deployment Review (US DoD) |
| PDR | Performance Data Reporting |
| PDR | Preliminary Design Report |
| PDR | Proved Developed Reserve (oil exploration) |
| PDR | Post Doctoral Research |
| PDR | Planar Di-Electric Resonator |
| PDR | Produkte Durch Recycling |
| PDR | Performance Data Request |
| PDR | Precision Depth Recorder |
| PDR | Professional Development Reimbursement (various organizations) |
| PDR | Professional Development Recognition |
| PDR | Program Director's Review (various organizations) |
| PDR | Paintless Dent Removal/Repair |
| PDR | Project Definition Report |
| PDR | Partisë Demokrate të Reformuar (Reformed Democratic Party, Albania) |
| PDR | Production Decision Review |
| PDR | Pulse Doppler Radar |
| PDR | Public Disclosure Request (proprietary information) |
| PDR | Playa Del Racing (racing team; Indianapolis, IN) |
| PDR | Photo Dissociation Region |
| PDR | Program Design Review |
| PDR | Program Deviation Report |
| PDR | Pygmy Dipole Resonance |
| PDR | Person Directly Resposible |
| PDR | Price Deviation Request (sales) |
| PDR | Pulse Dose Rate (radiation therapy) |
| PDR | Personal Dead-Reckoning (position location system) |
| PDR | Pioneer Development Resources |
| PDR | Preferential Departure Route |
| PDR | Programmable Digital Radio |
| PDR | Pod Diver Radio (Scuba Podcast) |
| PDR | Periscope Detection Radar |
| PDR | Product Delivery Record |
| PDR | Philippine Defense Ribbon |
| PDR | Preliminary Data Report |
| PDR | Policy Development & Review Department (International Monetary Fund) |
| PDR | Processor Data Rate |
| PDR | Policy Delivery Receipt (insurance) |
| PDR | Pigmentary Disorder, Reticulate, with Systemic Manifestations |
| PDR | Particulate Data Reduction |
| PDR | Pilot-to-Data Power Ratio (CDMA coding) |
| PDR | Peer Dispute Resolution |
| PDR | Program Data Requirement |
| PDR | Periodic Documentation Review |
| PDR | Personal Digital Reader |
| PDR | Packet Discard Rate |
| PDR | Periscope Depth Range |
| PDR | Planned Deviation Request |
| PDR | Plantwide Data Report |
| PDR | Professional Development Ribbon |
| PDR | Prospective Drug Review |
| PDR | Pressurized Deuterium Reactor |
| PDR | Process Design Review |
| PDR | Policy Deviation Request |
| PDR | Positive Discrepancy Revenue |
| PDR | Partial Digits Received |
| PDR | Prisoner Data Report |
| PDR | Pre-Delivery Router |
| PDR | Premium Deposit Reserve (insurance) |
| PDR | Program Definition Review |
| PDR | Product Defect Rate |
| PDR | Probabilistic Delay Routing |
| PDR | Present Day Ruth (Anastasia Means Dallas play) |
| PDR | Power Distribution Receptacle |
| PDR | Problem Detail Report |
| PDR | Pest Detection Report (California) |
| PDR | Program Document Review (Army Training) |
| PDR | Pressure Difference Ratio |