PRO
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Pro is an abbreviation meaning "professional".
The Pro or PRO or variant, may also refer to:
People
- Miguel Pro (1891–1927), Mexican Jesuit priest, beatified as a martyr
- Pro Hart (1928–2006), Australian painter (so nicknamed (for "professor")
- Pro, Derek Minor (born 1984), hip-hop artist (formerly so known)
- The Pro, Mike Awesome (1965–2007), an American professional wrestler
Occupations
- Prostitute, slang abbreviation
- Public relations officer (PRO), corporate communications officer
Linguistics
- PRO (linguistics) ("big PRO"), an empty category occupying the subject position in non-finite clauses
- pro (linguistics) ("little pro"), an empty category taking the place of a subject pronoun in pro-drop languages
Groups and organizations
Political parties
- Partido Progresista de Chile, (Progressive Party), known as PRO, a political party in Chile
- Propuesta Republicana (Republican Proposal), known as PRO, a political party in Argentina
- Partei Rechtsstaatlicher Offensive (Party for a Rule of Law Offensive), a former political party in Germany
Other groups and organizations
- Pasadena Roof Orchestra, a contemporary band from England
- Pensionärernas riksorganisation, the Swedish National Pensioners’ Organisation
- Performance rights organisation
- Pro TV, a Romanian private TV channel
- Producer Responsibility Organisation
- Professional Referee Organization, the referee program in professional soccer leagues in the United States and Canada
- Provincial Research Organization, a Canadian applied-research organisation
- Public Record Office, predecessor of the UK National Archives
- Public.Resource.Org, a non-profit dedicated to publishing and sharing public domain materials
Science and technology
- PRO (category theory), a construction in mathematics
- .pro, a generic top-level Internet DNS domain
- pro-, a suffix used in taxonomy
- Patient-reported outcome, in clinical trials
- Pressure-retarded osmosis, separation of a solvent from a pressurised and concentrated solution
- Proline, an amino acid
- Protein Ontology, a database which is part of the Protein Information Resource
Entertainment
- The Pro (TV series), starring Rob Lowe
- The Pro (comics), a prestige format one-shot comic book written by Garth Ennis
Other uses
gollark: Also, why not reduce stuff to E³ or whatever instead of the apiaristic "EEE"?
gollark: Why?
gollark: Which they are apparently.
gollark: If they are actual numbers.
gollark: So why not E³ and whatever?
See also
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- All pages with titles beginning with pro
- All pages with titles containing pro or pros
- All pages with titles containing pro-
- AM (disambiguation)
- Con (disambiguation)
- EPRO (disambiguation)
- Pro-Am
- Pro-Nav
- Professional (disambiguation)
- Amateur (disambiguation)
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