| 单词 | pro forma |
| 释义 | pro forma[ proh -fawr-muh ] / proʊ ˈfɔr mə / SEE SYNONYMS FOR pro forma ON THESAURUS.COM adjectiveaccording to form; as a matter of form; for the sake of form. Commerce. provided in advance of shipment and merely showing the description and quantity of goods shipped without terms of payment: a pro forma invoice. Accounting. indicating hypothetical financial figures based on previous business operations for estimate purposes: a pro forma balance sheet. adverbas a matter of form: Many of the school assignments appear to be done pro forma. noun plural pro for·ma, pro for·mas.a pro forma document. Also pro·for·ma (for defs. 2, 3, 5) . Origin of pro formaFirst recorded in 1565–75; from Latin prō formā Words nearby pro formaprofit warning, profligacy, profligate, profluent, pro-form, pro forma, pro forma invoice, proformiphen, profound, profoundly, profoundly deaf Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for pro forma
British Dictionary definitions for pro formapro forma / (ˈprəʊ ˈfɔːmə) / adjectiveprescribing a set form or procedure adverbperformed in a set manner Word Origin for pro formaLatin: for form's sake Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Cultural definitions for pro formapro forma [ (proh fawr-muh) ] Doing something pro forma means satisfying only the minimum requirements of a task and doing it in a perfunctory way: “Her welcoming address was strictly pro forma: you could tell that her mind was a million miles away.” From Latin, meaning “by form.” The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |
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