pro
IPA: prˈoʊ
noun
- An advantage of something, especially when contrasted with its disadvantages (cons).
- A person who supports a concept or principle.
- A professional sportsman.
- (colloquial) Professional.
- (slang) A prostitute.
- (UK, slang, archaic) A proproctor.
- (slang, historical) A chemical prophylaxis taken after sex to avoid contracting venereal disease.
- A surname from Spanish.
- Initialism of pressure retarded osmosis. [The salinity gradient energy retrieved from the difference in the salt concentration between seawater and river water.]
- (medicine) Initialism of patient-reported outcome.
adjective
- Professional.
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Examples of "pro" in Sentences
- Some object to the term pro-life on the grounds that it gives the anti-abortion movement an unfair advantage.
- Perhaps only the one proposed by Micheal Crichton – funding pro and ~pro stances in science equally. hans kelp
- We advise against using the term "volunteer," and some people like the term "pro bono" especially in the legal field, where it is common.
- He had always intended to celebrate this garden, and when he was preparing to return to Batsford in 1915 he wrote to me that he was going to write an _Apologia pro Horto meo_, as long before he had composed one _pro Banibusis meis_.
- (In Beinart's case, I use the term pro-Israel without the quotation marks that I use when I describe organizations like AIPAC, the American Jewish Committee and The Israel Project which are in the "pro-Israel" business and insouciantly support policies that are destructive to Israel) ..
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- JAI tentionalis suis in actibus • Illud intellectus proponit volunta* ti) quod tamen ea pro sua libertate in humanis actionibus aut com* plectityr y aut aspernatur; nisi forte omittat actionem positivam pro* secutionis, aut aversionis circa rem propositam pro indole libertatis) quam dicunt penes specificationem, aut exercUium.
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- I see that good men are to know, that learned men are not so good as I formerly thougfat imperfect, and know but little as they were, but have more imper with bare church communion, firming such young uuexperien - and such common love which I cedprofeflsors, andkeepingtbem must allow the wiclted, who pro - in order in their religious pro« fesseth himself a true Christian gress.
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