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See also: pr, Pr, .pr, -pr-, P.R., Pr., and pr.
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Translingual

Symbol

PR

  1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Puerto Rico.
    Synonym: PRI (alpha-3)

English

Proper noun

PR

  1. Initialism of Port Republic, New Jersey.
  2. Abbreviation of Paraná. A state of Brazil.
  3. Initialism of Puerto Rico. A territory of the United States.

Derived terms

Noun

PR (countable and uncountable, plural PRs)

  1. Initialism of public relations.
    • 2021 January 27, Christian Wolmar, “Little-used stations”, in RAIL, number 923, page 46:
      Well, let me reiterate them and then explain why, in my view, this response is bad PR.
  2. Initialism of proportional representation.
    • 2023 July 21, Rob Ford, “Would proportional representation really doom the Tories?”, in New Statesman‎:
      Last year the Labour Party passed a conference motion backing proportional representation (PR) by an overwhelming margin.
  3. Initialism of permanent residence.
  4. Initialism of police report.
  5. Initialism of personal representative.
  6. Initialism of personal recognizance (bond).
  7. (sports) Initialism of personal record.
  8. (software engineering) Initialism of pull request.
    Synonym: MR
  9. (tennis) Initialism of protected ranking.
  10. Initialism of Puerto Rican.
  11. (biochemistry) Initialism of progesterone receptor.
  12. (medicine) Initialism of partial response.
    Coordinate term: CR
  13. (hematology) Initialism of prothrombin ratio.
  14. (medicine) A PR interval.
  15. (electronics) Abbreviation of preset.
  16. (sports) Initialism of Paralympic record.
    Coordinate terms: OR, CR, TR, MR, GR, NR, WR

Derived terms

See also

  • (prothrombin ratio): PT, INR

Adverb

PR (not comparable)

  1. (medicine) Initialism of per rectal or per rectum.

Descendants

  • Georgian: პიარი (ṗiari)

Anagrams

Chinese

Etymology

From English PR (“public relations”).

Pronunciation

Noun

PR (Hong Kong Cantonese)

  1. PR; public relations
  2. public relations officer
  3. (slang) nightclub hostess

Synonyms

Finnish

Etymology

From English PR.

Noun

PR

  1. PR, public relations (communication by a person or an organization with the purpose of creating a favorable public image)

Synonyms

Derived terms

(compounds):

Further reading

  • “PR”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

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German

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): ,
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

PR f (genitive PR, no plural)

  1. (Germany) Initialism of Öffentlichkeitsarbeit.
    Synonym: ÖA
Declension
Declension of PR
singular
indef. def. noun
nominative eine die PR
genitive einer der PR
dative einer der PR
accusative eine die PR

Etymology 2

Noun

PR m (strong, genitive PRs or PR, plural PR, feminine PR'in)

  1. (Germany) Abbreviation of Polizeirat.
Declension
Declension of PR
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein der PR die PR
genitive eines des PRs, PR der PR
dative einem dem PR den PR
accusative einen den PR die PR

Indonesian

Pronunciation

Noun

PR (plural PR-PR)

  1. HW; Abbreviation of pekerjaan rumah (“homework”).

Usage notes

This term is not exclusive to text messaging, unlike English HW.

Further reading

Japanese

Etymology

Borrowed from English PR.

Pronunciation

Noun

PR(ピーアール) • (pīāru) 

  1. Synonym of パブリック・リレーションズ (paburikku rirēshonzu, “public relations”); PR
  2. promotion

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English PR.

Pronunciation

Noun

PR m inan (indeclinable, related adjective PR-owski)

  1. PR (communication by a person or an organization with the purpose of creating a favorable public image)
    Synonym: public relations

Derived terms

(adjectives):
(nouns):

Further reading

  • PR in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • PR in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Anagrams

Portuguese

Proper noun

PR m

  1. Initialism of Presidente da República.
  2. (Brazil) Abbreviation of Paraná. (Brazilian state)
  3. (Brazil, politics, historical) Initialism of Partido da República (“Party of the Republic”), now PL.

Swedish

Noun

PR c

  1. Alternative letter-case form of pr (“PR, public relations”).

Adverb

PR

  1. Abbreviation of poste restante (“poste restante”).
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