English dictionary: words starting with pro

noun

A professional, especially in sport.

Usage examples:

A tennis pro

adjective

(of a person or an event) professional.

Usage examples:

A pro golfer

preposition

In favour of.

Usage examples:

They were pro the virtues of individualism

prefix

Favouring; supporting.

Usage examples:

Pro-choice

abbreviation

Public record office.

idiom

Done for the public good without compensation

adverb

(especially with reference to legal work for a client with a low income) without charge.

Usage examples:

The attorneys are representing him pro bono

adjective

Denoting work undertaken without charge, especially legal work for a client with a low income.

Usage examples:

Pro bono legal services

idiom

In a set manner without serious attention

adjective

Done or produced as a matter of form.

Usage examples:

Pro forma reports

adverb

As a matter of form or politeness.

Usage examples:

He nodded to him pro forma

noun

A pro forma document or form.

Usage examples:

Please return the enclosed pro forma

idiom

In proportion

adjective

Proportional.

Usage examples:

As the pound has fallen costs have risen on a pro rata basis

adverb

Proportionally.

Usage examples:

Their fees will rise pro rata with salaries

idiom

According to need

adverb

For an occasion as it arises; extempore, without prior provision; as required, as needed.

adjective

Of a meeting, council, etc.: extraordinary, held or called to deal with a specific matter. also more generally: resulting from or responding to particular circumstances.

adjective

Taking action by causing change and not only reacting to change when it happens

Usage examples:

Companies are going to have to be more proactive about environmental management., a proactive appro…

adverb

Now and for only a short period after

Usage examples:

David pierce will take his place as managing director at the company pro tem., a pro tem appointment

noun

A type of sailing boat originating in malaysia and indonesia that may be sailed with either end at the front, typically having a large triangular sail and an outrigger.

Usage examples:

The early fishers were malays, also known as macassans, from the indonesian islands, and it seems t…

noun

A clotting factor (factor v) that is a glycoprotein whose activated form participates in the conversion of prothrombin to thrombin.

verb

To approach, come near.

verb

To take proactive measures; to act in advance, to anticipate.

adjective

(of a person or action) creating or controlling a situation rather than just responding to it after it has happened.

Usage examples:

Employers must take a proactive approach to equal pay

noun

Practical deliberation or reasoning leading to choice; the power to choose or make a decision.

noun

Practical deliberation or reasoning leading to choice; the power to choose or make a decision.

adjective

Characterized by or involving movement from back to front, especially of the lower jaw in mastication. contrasted with palinal.

noun

In many vertebrate embryos: an area of blastoderm, located at the cephalic end, in which there is no mesoderm separating the ectoderm and endoderm.

adjective

Of, relating to, or derived from the proamnion.

noun

A type of sailing boat originating in malaysia and indonesia that may be sailed with either end at the front, typically having a large triangular sail and an outrigger.

Usage examples:

The early fishers were malays, also known as macassans, from the indonesian islands, and it seems t…

noun

A vertebral element located between the base of the skull and the atlas vertebra which fuses with the skull during embryonic development in most vertebrates, but persists as a distinct element in some, especially as a pair of small, v-shaped bones anterior to the neural arch of the atlas in certain reptiles (e.g. chameleons and tuataras).

noun

A vestibule or forecourt in a church or temple; specifically a portico or colonnade opening into the narthex.

adjective

Of or relating to a hypothetical animal forming an evolutionary link between fossil reptiles and fossil birds.

noun

A proavian animal. compare earlier proavis , and protobird .

noun

= proavian .

noun

A problem.

Usage examples:

There's no prob

adverb

Probably.

Usage examples:

She prob looks lovely without make-up

short form

Used in informal speech and writing as a short form of "problem"

Usage examples:

I'll do it first thing in the morning, no prob!, use the code below, this should not be a prob., no…

noun

In moral theology: the theory that, in cases of doubt concerning the binding character of a law or the permissibility of an act, a person should follow the most probable of the available opinions, or the side on which the evidence preponderates. opposed to "probabilism".

noun

An adherent of the theory of probabiliorism.