Meanings
hr1
plural hrs
- abbreviationAbbreviation of hour.
“Just rawdogged it, 15 hr flight to Melbourne. No movie, no music, just flightmap (I counted to one million twice),” Torren Foot, an Australian music producer, wrote in the caption of a video posted on TikTok last month.
2024 July 17, Jessica Roy, “A Wildly Obscene Term’s Path to Mainstream Usage”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Jul 2024
HR2
plural HRs
- Initialism of human resources.
- countableuncountableThe management and administration thereof; a department or function that performs those.
Here are some of the biggest challenges HR executives said they faced this year: […]
2021 December 28, Kathryn Vasel, “HR executives share some of the biggest challenges of 2021”, in CNN BusinessSynonyms: personnel
- abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableball gamesInitialism of home runs (in statistics).
- abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablebiologyInitialism of homologous recombination.
- abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablehobbiesInitialism of hinge remnant.
- abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablegovernmentInitialism of house resolution.
- abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablegovernmentInitialism of [U.S.] House Resolution.
- abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableoccupational healthInitialism of hazard ratio.
- abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of heart rate.
Near-synonym: pulse
Synonyms: pulse
- various countriesHouse of Representatives.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe management and administration thereof; a department or function that performs those.
nounInitialism of heart rate.
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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Czech hod.
- hod.abbreviation of hour
Indonesian jm
- jmabbreviation of hour
Swedish h, tim
- habbreviation of hour
- timabbreviation of hour
Turkish sa, sa.
- saabbreviation of hour
- sa.abbreviation of hour
Vietnamese g, h
- gabbreviation of hour
- habbreviation of hour
Cite this entry
hr. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hr
“hr.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hr. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hr,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hr.
Source: hr on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.