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SAR

SAR is the acronym of search and rescue.

SAR is the acronym of synthetic-aperture radar.

SAR is the initialism of Saudi Arabian riyal.

SAR is the acronym of special administrative region.

SAR is the acronym of suspicious activity report.

SAR is the acronym of special administration regime.

Meaning of search and rescue

Noun

search and rescue (countable and uncountable, plural search and rescues or searches and rescues)

  1. An effort to save persons whose locations are not precisely known from hazardous situations.
    • that an expedition may be fitted out by the government of the United States for the Arctic zone, for the search and rescue of the American expedition under the command of Dr. Kane1854, United States Congressional Serial Set, page 218
  2. The emergency service that performs or coordinates such efforts.

Meaning of special administrative region

Noun

special administrative region (plural special administrative regions)

  1. Designation for types of administrative division in China, East Timor, and North Korea.
    1. In China, an administrative division and a type of dependent territory that is granted de jure autonomy (apart from applicable national laws) except for foreign relations and defence.

Proper noun capitalized: Sar

Sar (plural Sars)

  1. A surname from Khmer.

Forms of SAR

Noun
pluralSARs
Proper noun
pluralSars

Origin of SAR

From Khmer ស (sɑɑ) or Khmer សរ (sɑɑ).

Words formed from SAR

Phrases with SAR

Questions about SAR

What does SAR mean?
SAR means a surname from Khmer.
What is SAR the acronym of?
SAR is the acronym of search and rescue.
What part of speech is SAR?
SAR is a proper noun.

Words near SAR in the dictionary

  1. Saqqaq
  2. Saqqara
  3. saquayamycin
  4. saquayamycins
  5. saquinavir
  6. SAR
  7. sar tan se juda
  8. Sar-e Pol
  9. Sar.
  10. Sara
  11. Sara'

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: SAR (page history and authors); Sar (page history and authors); search and rescue (page history and authors); special administrative region (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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