PRO
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PRO or Pro may refer to:
Language
- Professional, abbreviation
- e.g. many products are marketed described as Pro (or Professional), implying superiority
- 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
Science & Computer
- Proline, an amino acid
- Pressure-retarded osmosis, separation of a solvent from a pressurised and concentrated solution
- PRO (category theory), a construction in mathematics
- Patient-reported outcome, in clinical trials
- .pro, a generic top-level Internet DNS domain
- Pro theme, a visual style designed for professional-grade software for Mac OS X
- pro-, a suffix used in taxonomy
Persons
- Public relations officer, corporate communications officer
- Pro Hart (1928–2006), Australian painter nicknamed "Pro" for "professor"
- Derek Minor, a hip-hop artist formerly known as PRo
- Prostitute, slang abbreviation
Groups and organizations
- Partido Progresista de Chile, (Progressive Party), known as PRO, a political party in Chile
- Pasadena Roof Orchestra, a contemporary band from England
- Pensionärernas riksorganisation, the Swedish National Pensioners’ Organisation
- Performance rights organisation
- Producer Responsibility Organisation
- Professional Referee Organization, the referee program in professional soccer leagues in the United States and Canada
- Propuesta Republicana (Republican Proposal), known as PRO, a political party in Argentina
- Provincial Research Organization, a Canadian applied-research organisation
- Public Record Office, predecessor of the UK National Archives
- Partei Rechtsstaatlicher Offensive (Party for a Rule of Law Offensive), a former political party in Germany
See also
- All pages beginning with "pro"
- All pages with titles containing pro
- All pages with titles containing pro-
- Con (disambiguation)
- EPRO (disambiguation)
- Pro-Nav
- The Pro (disambiguation)
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