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CFR

CFR is the initialism of Code of Federal Regulations.

CFR is the initialism of Council on Foreign Relations.

CFR is the initialism of cost and freight.

CFR is the initialism of case fatality rate.

CFR is the initialism of constant frame rate.

Meaning of cost and freight

Noun

cost and freight (uncountable)

  1. A scheme whereby the seller pays for transportation to the port of loading, cost and freight, and the buyer pays for the insurance and the rest of the transportation.
    Synonyms:
    CFR

Meaning of case fatality rate

Noun

case fatality rate (plural case fatality rates)

  1. A percentage derived by the division of the number of fatalities by the number of confirmed (diagnosed) cases (sufferers) of a disease.
    • That 3.4 percent mortality rate, though still fluid, is formidable, even compared next to the case fatality rates (the number of deaths compared to the total number of those diagnosed) for other recent outbreaks.2020 March 12, Matt Stieb, “Does the Coronavirus Think I’m Old?”, in New York

Forms of CFR

pluralCFRs

Questions about CFR

What is CFR the initialism of?
CFR is the initialism of Code of Federal Regulations.

Words near CFR in the dictionary

  1. CFP francs
  2. CFPB
  3. CFPF
  4. CFPO
  5. CFPs
  6. CFR
  7. cfr.
  8. cfRNA
  9. cfRNAs
  10. CFRP
  11. CFRPs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: CFR (page history and authors); cost and freight (page history and authors); case fatality rate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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