Meanings
pr1
- abbreviationAbbreviation of present.
PR2
- abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Puerto Rico: a territory of the United States.
- abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Port Republic: a small city in New Jersey, United States.
plural PRs
- 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 - 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 - abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of personal representative.
- abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of personal recognizance (bond).
- abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablehobbiesInitialism of personal record.
- abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablebusinessInitialism of purchase requisition.
- abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of Puerto Rican.
- abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablebiochemistryInitialism of progesterone receptor.
- abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablehematologyInitialism of prothrombin ratio.
- countableuncountablemedicineA PR interval.
- abbreviationcountableuncountablebusinessAbbreviation of preset.
- abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablehobbiesInitialism of Paralympic record.
- abbreviationinitialismnot comparablemedicineInitialism of per-rectal or per rectum.
present singular third person PRs · participle present PRing · participle past PRed · past PRed
Pr3
- abbreviationchemistryAbbreviation of propyl.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounInitialism of pull request.
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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pr. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pr
“pr.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pr. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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