pr

P3R1

noun

A PR interval.

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Meanings

pr1

adjective
  1. abbreviationAbbreviation of present.

PR2

proper noun
  1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Puerto Rico: a territory of the United States.
  2. abbreviationAbbreviation of Paraná: a state of Brazil.
  3. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Port Republic: a small city in New Jersey, United States.
nounPR (countable and uncountable, plural PRs)

plural PRs

  1. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of public relations.

    Well, let me reiterate them and then explain why, in my view, this response is bad PR.

    2021 January 27, Christian Wolmar, “Little-used stations”, in RAIL, number 923, page 46
  2. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of proportional representation.

    Last year the Labour Party passed a conference motion backing proportional representation (PR) by an overwhelming margin.

    2023 July 21, Rob Ford, “Would proportional representation really doom the Tories?”, in New Statesman
  3. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of permanent residence.
  4. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of police report.
  5. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of personal representative.
  6. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of personal recognizance (bond).
  7. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablehobbiesInitialism of personal record.
  8. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablebusinessInitialism of purchase requisition.
  9. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablecomputingInitialism of pull request.

    Synonyms: MR

  10. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablehobbiesInitialism of protected ranking.
  11. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of Puerto Rican.
  12. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablebiochemistryInitialism of progesterone receptor.
  13. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablemedicineInitialism of partial response.
  14. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablehematologyInitialism of prothrombin ratio.
  15. countableuncountablemedicineA PR interval.
  16. abbreviationcountableuncountablebusinessAbbreviation of preset.
  17. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablehobbiesInitialism of Paralympic record.
adverbPR (not comparable)
  1. abbreviationinitialismnot comparablemedicineInitialism of per-rectal or per rectum.
verbPR (third-person singular simple present PRs, present participle PRing, simple past and past participle PRed)

present singular third person PRs · participle present PRing · participle past PRed · past PRed

  1. ambitransitiveinformaluncommonTo perform public relations work, such as promoting or managing publicity for something.

Pr3

noun
  1. abbreviationchemistryAbbreviation of propyl.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounInitialism of pull request.

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More synonyms by meaning

nouna promotion intended to create goodwill for a person or institution

nouna soft yellowish-white trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; can be recovered from bastnasite or monazite by an ion-exchange process

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praseodymiumatomic number 59
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metallic elementmetal

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