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pro

Pronunciation: (prō), [key]
—adv., n., pl. pros.

—adv.
in favor of a proposition, opinion, etc.

—n.
1. a proponent of an issue; a person who upholds the affirmative in a debate.
2. an argument, consideration, vote, etc., for something. Cf. con ¹.

pro

Pronunciation: (prō), [key]
—adj., n., pl. pros. Informal.

—adj.
professional.

—n.
1. professional.
2. the pros,the professional athletic leagues, as of football, baseball, or basketball: He's sure to be signed by the pros.

pro

Pronunciation: (prō), [key]
—n.,
—pl. pros. Slang.
prophylactic (def. 5).

pro

Pronunciation: (prō; Eng. prō), [key]
—prep. Latin.
for.

PRO

public relations officer. Also,P.R.O.

Pro

Biochem.
proline.

pro-

1. a prefix indicating favor for some party, system, idea, etc., without identity with the group (pro-British; pro-Communist; proslavery), having anti- as its opposite.
2. a prefix of priority in space or time having especially a meaning of advancing or projecting forward or outward, and also used to indicate substitution, attached widely to stems not used as words: provision; prologue; proceed; produce; protract; procathedral; proconsul.

pro-

a prefix identical in meaning with pro- ¹, occurring in words borrowed from Greek (prodrome) or formed of Greek (and occasionally Latin) elements.

p.r.n

proa

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