PRO

PRO may refer to:

Professional
Professional
A professional is a person who is paid to undertake a specialised set of tasks and to complete them for a fee. The traditional professions were doctors, lawyers, clergymen, and commissioned military officers. Today, the term is applied to estate agents, surveyors , environmental scientists,...

, abbreviation for either a person in a profession or in sports
.pro
.pro
The domain name pro is a generic top-level domain in the Domain Name System of the Internet. Its name is derived from professional, indicating its intended use by qualified professionals.-History:...

, a sponsored generic top-level domain
Pro Theme
Pro theme
Pro Theme is a GUI style used by Apple Inc. for its Mac OS X operating system. It is reserved for Apple's high-end video, music and image editing products, such as Final Cut Pro HD, Soundtrack Pro and Aperture....

, an Apple Macintosh GUI
Pro Hart
Pro Hart
Kevin Charles "Pro" Hart, MBE , born in Broken Hill, New South Wales, was considered the father of the Australian Outback painting movement and his works are widely admired for capturing the true spirit of the outback...

(1928–2006), Australian painter nicknamed "Pro" for "professor"

PRO as an acronym or abbreviation may refer to:

Patient-reported outcome
Patient-reported outcome
A patient-reported outcome or PRO is a questionnaire used in a clinical trial or a clinical setting, where the responses are collected directly from the patient.-Overview:...

, in clinical trials.
Pensionärernas riksorganisation, the Swedish National Pensioners’ Organisation
Swedish National Pensioners’ Organisation
The Swedish National Pensioners’ Organisation is an advocacy group in Sweden representing pensioners. It's the largest pensioners' organisation in Sweden with 399 303 members as of 31 December 2006....

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Performance rights organisation
Performance rights organisation
Performance rights organizations provide intermediary functions, particularly royalty collection, between copyright holders and parties who wish to use copyrighted works publicly such as shopping and dining venues. Legal consumer purchase of works, such as buying CDs from a music store, confer...

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Producer Responsibility Organisation.
Pasadena Roof Orchestra
Pasadena Roof Orchestra
The Pasadena Roof Orchestra is a contemporary band from England that specialises in the jazz and swing genres of music of the 1920s and 1930s, although their full repertoire is considerably wider. The orchestra has existed since 1969, although the line-up has frequently changed...

, a contemporary band from England.
PRO (category theory), a construction in mathematics.
PRO (linguistics)
PRO (linguistics)
PRO is an empty category whose existence is postulated in classical Government and Binding Theory. There are two independent pieces of evidence for its existence: the Extended Projection Principle and theta criterion :*I persuaded John [PRO to read Al Gore's latest...

, an empty category whose existence is postulated in classical Government and Binding Theory.
Propuesta Republicana, known as PRO, a political party in Argentina.
Public Record Office
Public Record Office
The Public Record Office of the United Kingdom is one of the three organisations that make up the National Archives...

, of the United Kingdom.
Public Relations Officer, corporate communications officer .
Pressure Retarded Osmosis
Pressure retarded osmosis
Pressure retarded osmosis is the salinity gradient energy retrieved from the difference in the salt concentration between seawater and river water.In PRO, the water potential between fresh water and sea water corresponds to a pressure of 26 bars...

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PRO
Provincial Research Organization
Provincial Research Organizations are Canadian provincial government initiatives to promote research and development and adoption of technology in their respective provinces. The first PRO in Canada was the Alberta Research Council...

refers to Provincial Research Organization, a Canadian applied research entity.

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