a piece of electronic equipment that records television programmes or films digitally onto an internal hard drive so they can be watched whenever desired.
Our DVR is full; we need to delete some old recordings.
He bought a new DVR with lots of storage space.
✦ Acronym for digital video recorder, introduced in the late 1990s with devices like TiVo revolutionizing home TV recording.
to record a television programme or film using a DVR.
Make sure to DVR the football game tonight.
She DVRs all her favorite dramas.
✦ Back-formation from the noun DVR in the early 2000s as the technology became widespread.
