| Acronym | Definition |
|---|
| FRED | Flashing Rear End Device |
| FRED | Financial Reporting Exposure Draft (UK Accounting Standards Board) |
| FRED | Frame Editor |
| FRED | Fast Recovery Epitaxial Diode |
| FRED | Food and Resource Economics Department |
| FRED | Flashing Rear End Device (railroad) |
| FRED | Fathers Reading Every Day (Texas) |
| FRED | Federal Reserve Economic Database |
| FRED | First Responder External Defibrillator (medical equipment) |
| FRED | Forensic Recovery of Evidence Device (Digital Intelligence, Inc.) |
| FRED | Faculty Research Expertise Database (Penn State) |
| FRED | Florida Research & Economic Database |
| FRED | Flipping Ridiculous Electronic Device |
| FRED | Fred Resembles EMACS Deliberately (Editor for Macintosh Allegro Common LISP) |
| FRED | Free Range Education (UK) |
| FRED | Federated Repositories for Education (Australia) |
| FRED | Field Remote Expeditionary Device (Stargate) |
| FRED | Flight Recorder Electronic Documentation |
| FRED | Fuzzy Reasoning Edge Detection (NASA nonexclusive patent license agreement) |
| FRED | Field Ration Eating Device (Australian Army) |
| FRED | Fog Reduction Elimination Device (for laparoscope lenses) |
| FRED | Framed Raw Expanded Data |
| FRED | Fast Reliable Easy Dispensing |
| FRED | Freaking Ridiculous Electronic Device |
| FRED | Freaking Radical Engineering Design |
| FRED | Facilities Request Data Base |
| FRED | Flexible Rate Easy Deposit (Gateway Credit Union) |
| FRED | Florida Re-Engineers Development |
| FRED | Flexible Risk Exposure Database (insurance) |
| FRED | Father's Rights for Equality in Divorce (Pazner Law Firm, PC; Michigan) |
| FRED | Forward Ranging Electronic Device (thermal infrared mobile surveillance uni) |
| FRED | Failure Reporting, Evaluation and Display (automotive system reliability) |
| FRED | Force Requirements Enhanced Database (USCENTCOM) |
| FRED | Friendly Robotic Educational Device |
| FRED | Fire, Release, Explosion and Dispersion Models (Shell) |