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PR en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism 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. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism 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. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of permanent residence.
  4. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of police report.
  5. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of personal representative.
  6. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of personal recognizance (bond).
  7. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of personal record.
  8. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of purchase requisition.
  9. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of pull request.
  10. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of protected ranking.
  11. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of Puerto Rican.
  12. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of progesterone receptor.
  13. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of partial response.
  14. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of prothrombin ratio.
  15. (countable, uncountable) A PR interval.
  16. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable) Abbreviation of preset.
    alt of preset
  17. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of Paralympic record.

Forms

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PRs Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

GR · CR · OR · MR · CR · WR · TR · NR

Deriveds

PR-friendly (public relations)

Relateds

PT (prothrombin ratio) · INR (prothrombin ratio)

Synonyms

MR

Source: en.wiktionary, “PR” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

PR en · PROPN

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of Puerto Rico: a territory of the United States.
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of) Abbreviation of Paraná: a state of Brazil.
    alt of Paraná
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of Port Republic: a small city in New Jersey, United States.

Deriveds

PRUSVI

Source: en.wiktionary, “PR” (name), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

PR en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (ambitransitive, informal, uncommon) To perform public relations work, such as promoting or managing publicity for something.

Forms

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PRed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
PRed Tense=Past lexicographic
PRing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
PRs Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic