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PRO

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Pro is an abbreviation meaning "professional".

Pro, PRO or variants thereof may also refer to:

People

  • Miguel Pro (1891–1927), Mexican Jesuit priest, beatified as a martyr
  • Pro Hart (1928–2006), Australian painter nicknamed "Professor" and "Pro"
  • Mlungisi Mdluli (born 1980), South African retired footballer nicknamed "Pro"
  • PRo, a former stage name of hip-hop artist Derek Minor (born 1984)
  • The Pro, a ring name, along with Mike Awesome, of American professional wrestler Michael Lee Alfonso (1965–2007)

Occupations

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

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

Organizations

  • 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
  • Provincial Research Organization, a Canadian applied-research organisation
  • Public.Resource.Org, a non-profit dedicated to publishing and sharing public domain materials

Science and technology

Products

  • iPad Pro, a line of iPad tablet computers
  • Mac Pro, a series of workstations and servers for professionals
  • MacBook Pro, a line of Macintosh portable computers
  • Pentium Pro, an x86 microprocessor
  • SIG Pro, a series of semi-automatic pistols

Entertainment

Other uses

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with pro
  • All pages with titles containing pro or pros
  • All pages with titles containing pro-
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