hr

H4R1
UK/eɪt͡ʃ ɑː(ɹ)/Ireland/heɪtʃ ɔɹ/Canada, US/eɪt͡ʃ ɑɹ/

noun

The human capital of an organization.

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Meanings

hr1

nounhr (plural hrs)

plural hrs

  1. 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
  2. abbreviationinitialismcomputingInitialism of horizontal rule.

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HR2

nounHR (countable and uncountable, plural HRs)

plural HRs

  1. Initialism of human resources.
    1. countableuncountableThe human capital of an organization.

      Synonyms: personnel, staff

    2. 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 Business

      Synonyms: personnel

  2. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableball gamesInitialism of home runs (in statistics).
  3. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablebiologyInitialism of homologous recombination.
  4. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablehobbiesInitialism of hinge remnant.
  5. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablegovernmentInitialism of house resolution.
    1. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablegovernmentInitialism of [U.S.] House Resolution.
  6. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableoccupational healthInitialism of hazard ratio.
  7. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of heart rate.

    Near-synonym: pulse

    Synonyms: pulse

proper noun
  1. abbreviationAbbreviation of Haryana: a state of India.
  2. various countriesHouse of Representatives.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounThe human capital of an organization.

nounThe management and administration thereof; a department or function that performs those.

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nounInitialism of heart rate.

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More synonyms by meaning

nouna period of time equal to 1/24th of a day

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hour60 minutes

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
APA

hr. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hr

MLA

“hr.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hr. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hr,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hr.

Source: hr on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.