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{{wiktionary|CRS}}

'''CRS''' can mean:-

*'''[[Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité]]''' (the French [[riot police]])

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*'''Catholic Relief Services'''

*'''Combined Road Services''' (a British road haulage firm)

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*'''cold rolled [[steel]]'''

'''CRS''' canmay meanrefer to:-

*'''Cereal Research Station''' (at Berkhamstead in England)

*'''Cooperative Retail Service''' (a chain of shops in Britain)

== Organisations ==

*'''[[Computer reservation system]]s''' used by airlines, hotels, and rental car agencies

=== Government related ===

A web search for '''CRS''' in [http://www.altavista.com/ Altavista] will find several other firms and organizations named CRS.

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* [[Career Retention Specialist]], a Marine responsible for enlisted retention in U.S. Marine Corps units

* China Reconstruction Society, also known as the [[Blue Shirts Society]], a Fascist clique and secret police or para-military force in the Republic of China between 1931 and 1938

* [[Commission of Railway Safety]], rail safety authority in India

* [[Common Reporting Standard]], an OECD standard for exchange of information

* [[Community Relations Service]], United States Department of Justice branch for CR and civil rights

*''' [[Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité]]''', (the French [[riot-control police]])force

* [[Congressional Research Service]], the public-policy arm of the United States Congress

=== NGO or commercial ===

* [[Catholic Relief Services]], an American international humanitarian agency

* [[Classic Rock Society]], a UK-based organisation to promote classic and progressive rock music

* [[Co-operative Retail Services]], a former co-operative society in the United Kingdom

* [[Creation Research Society]], a Christian research group which engages in creation science

* [[Croatian Register of Shipping]], an independent classification society working in the marine market

* [[Somaschi Fathers]] (''Ordo Clericorum Regularium a Somascha''), a charitable religious congregation

== Science and technology ==

=== Medicine and biology ===

* [[Cambridge Reference Sequence]], used in mitochondrial DNA testing

* [[Caudal regression syndrome]], a rare congenital disorder

* [[Chinese restaurant syndrome]], purportedly caused by the flavor enhancer glutamate

* [[Chronic radiation syndrome]], resulting from prolonged exposures to radiation

* [[Chronic rhinosinusitis]]

* [[Congenital rubella syndrome]], a disease passed from mother to fetus

* [[Cutaneous radiation syndrome]], a syndrome that results from acute radiation exposure to the skin

* [[Cytokine release syndrome]], in immunology

* [[Cytoreductive surgery]], in cancer treatment

=== Computer science and engineering ===

* [[Canada Remote Systems]], a now-defunct bulletin-board system based in Toronto

* [[Carrier Routing System]], a large-scale core router

* Celestial Reference System(s), see [[Barycentric and geocentric celestial reference systems]]

* Cluster Ready Services, components of [[Oracle Clusterware]] for database support

* [[Cold rolled steel]]

* [[Commercial Resupply Services]], a NASA contract to deliver supplies to space

* [[Common reference string model]], in cryptography

* [[Computer reservations system]] (or ''Central Reservation System''), a computerised system used for travel bookings

* [[Coordinate reference system]], used to locate geographical entities

== Other uses ==

* [[Camp Rising Sun (New York)]], an international leadership-program for youth development

* [[Child Rebel Soldier]], a former hip-hop supergroup composed of Kanye West, Lupe Fiasco, and Pharrell

* [[Classroom response system]], an interactive teaching tool using "clicker questions"

* [[Seychellois Creole]] (ISO 639-3 language code), a French-based creole language of the Seychelles

* ''[[Colorado Revised Statutes]]'', the legal code of Colorado

* [[Cosmic Ray Subsystem]], a spacecraft instrument on the Voyager probe that helped detect the interstellar medium

* Consumer Recreation Services, a fictional company which features in the 1997 film ''[[The Game (1997 film)|The Game]]''

== See also ==

* [[.crs (disambiguation)]]

* [[CRS-1 (disambiguation)]]

== Distinguish from ==

*[[seeress]], a female prophet

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