Legal and Finance
- Alternative dispute resolution, dispute resolution processes and techniques that act as a means for disagreeing parties to come to an agreement short of litigation.
- Turnaround Alternative Dispute Resolution, a form of out-of-court financial mediation in Japan, unrelated to traditional Alternative dispute resolution
- American Depositary Receipt, a method of trading non-U.S. stocks on U.S. exchanges
- Average daily rate, a common lodging industry statistic
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