Definition of "PR"

PR

proper noun
1. Initialism of Port Republic, New Jersey.
2. Abbreviation of Paraná. A state of Brazil.
3. Initialism of Puerto Rico. A territory of the United States.
noun
countable and uncountable, plural PRs
1. Initialism of public relations.
  Quotations
  Well, let me reiterate them and then explain why, in my view, this response is bad PR.
  2021 January 27, Christian Wolmar, “Little-used stations”, in RAIL, number 923, page 46
2. Initialism of proportional representation.
  Quotations
  Last year the Labour Party passed a conference motion backing proportional representation (PR) by an overwhelming margin.
  2023 July 21, Rob Ford, “Would proportional representation really doom the Tories?”, in New Statesman‎
3. Initialism of permanent residence.
4. Initialism of police report.
5. Initialism of personal representative.
6. Initialism of personal recognizance (bond).
7. (sports) Initialism of personal record.
8. (software engineering) Initialism of pull request.
9. (tennis) Initialism of protected ranking.
10. Initialism of Puerto Rican.
11. (biochemistry) Initialism of progesterone receptor.
12. (medicine) Initialism of partial response.
13. (hematology) Initialism of prothrombin ratio.
14. (medicine) A PR interval.
15. (electronics) Abbreviation of preset.
16. (sports) Initialism of Paralympic record.
adverb
not comparable
1. (medicine) Initialism of per rectal or per rectum.