agr

Abbreviation with 2 meanings

agr
Stands forAgreement error
Meanings2
CategoriesWriting & Everyday, Military
Also writtenAGR

agr has two meanings. It stands for Agreement error (proofreading and correction mark) or Active Guard Reserve (military term).

Meanings of agr at a glance

#agr stands forContext
1Agreement errorWriting & Everyday › Proofreading and Correction Mark
2Active Guard ReserveMilitary › Military Term

1. Agreement error

Writing & Everyday · Proofreading and Correction Mark Abbreviations

Marks a failure of agreement, either between subject and verb ("The list of items are long") or between a pronoun and its antecedent. It is a standard symbol in composition handbooks.

Example: The teacher underlined "The results of the study shows" and wrote agr above the verb.

Common traps include collective nouns, words that come between subject and verb, and indefinite pronouns such as "everyone." APA and many other style guides now accept singular "they" for a person of unspecified gender, so pronoun-agreement marks depend on the course's style. Some handbooks specify "s-v agr" or "pn agr."

2. Active Guard Reserve (AGR)

Military · Military Term Abbreviations

Program in which National Guard and Reserve members serve full time on active duty, organizing, administering, recruiting and training their reserve units while earning active-duty pay and benefits.

Example: She took an AGR job as the battalion's full-time training NCO.

AGR members are often the backbone of Guard and Reserve units between drill weekends. Their service counts toward an active-duty retirement after 20 years. Each service has its own name for similar programs; the Navy uses Full Time Support (FTS).

More proofreading and correction mark abbreviations

  • AA – Author's alteration
  • AQ – Author query
  • awk – Awkward
  • bf – Boldface
  • caps – Capitals
  • CS – Comma splice
  • DM – Dangling modifier
  • frag – Sentence fragment

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More military term abbreviations

  • AD – Active duty
  • AFQT – Armed Forces Qualification Test
  • AFSC – Air Force Specialty Code
  • AFT – Army Fitness Test
  • AIT – Advanced Individual Training
  • AO – Area of operations
  • AOR – Area of responsibility
  • APFT – Army Physical Fitness Test

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