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pro1 /prəʊ /noun (plural pros) informal1A professional, especially in sport: a tennis pro...- Does he protest when baseball or tennis players become pros right after high school?
- The sites usually list bios and name some of the professional designations that qualified pros have.
- Sports staffs now call on country club pros to serve as tennis instructors.
adjective(Of a person or an event) professional: a pro golfer...- In addition, the pro fitness contest might become a pro figure event instead.
- As far as the pro teams were concerned, Glasgow enjoyed a good start to the season and got as as far as the semi-finals of the Celtic League, proving that they are becoming more competitive.
- However, there is an irony in the fact that if the plan to off-load the pro teams is successful they again will need a chief executive.
OriginMid 19th century: abbreviation. Rhymesaglow, ago, alow, although, apropos, art nouveau, Bamako, Bardot, beau, Beaujolais Nouveau, below, bestow, blow, bo, Boileau, bons mots, Bordeaux, Bow, bravo, bro, cachepot, cheerio, Coe, crow, Defoe, de trop, doe, doh, dos-à-dos, do-si-do, dough, dzo, Flo, floe, flow, foe, foreknow, foreshow, forgo, Foucault, froe, glow, go, good-oh, go-slow, grow, gung-ho, Heathrow, heave-ho, heigh-ho, hello, ho, hoe, ho-ho, jo, Joe, kayo, know, lo, low, maillot, malapropos, Marceau, mho, Miró, mo, Mohs, Monroe, mot, mow, Munro, no, Noh, no-show, oh, oho, outgo, outgrow, owe, Perrault, pho, po, Poe, quid pro quo, reshow, righto, roe, Rouault, row, Rowe, sew, shew, show, sloe, slow, snow, so, soh, sow, status quo, stow, Stowe, strow, tally-ho, though, throw, tic-tac-toe, to-and-fro, toe, touch-and-go, tow, trow, undergo, undersow, voe, whacko, whoa, wo, woe, Xuzhou, yo, yo-ho-ho, Zhengzhou, Zhou pro2 /prəʊ /noun (plural pros) (usually pros) An advantage or argument in favour of something: the pros and cons of share ownership...- Hopefully you would have seen a more balanced argument to the pros and cons of GM, and that we shouldn't believe every thing we read.
- The essays in this issue explore the pros and cons, the advantages and dangers of taking human rights seriously.
- Weighing up the pros and cons, I pressed ‘yes’ and got out of there.
preposition & adverbIn favour of: [as preposition]: they were pro the virtues of individualism...- Prior to Japananese colonization, SK was split between pro-Chinese & pro Japanese factions.
- ‘If a village was not pro Viet Cong before we came, it sure was after we left,’ one GI observed.
- I'm as pro business, pro free enterprise as anybody in the country.
OriginLate Middle English (as a noun): from Latin, literally 'for, on behalf of'. PRO3abbreviation2Public relations officer. pro-4 /prəʊ/prefixBefore in time, place, order, etc. proactive prothalamium Origin |