pro: Meaning and Definition of

pro

1. in favor of a proposition, opinion, etc.

1. a proponent of an issue; a person who upholds the affirmative in a debate.
2. an argument, consideration, vote, etc., for something. Cf..

pro

1. professional.

1. professional.
2. the professional athletic leagues, as of football, baseball, or basketball: He's sure to be signed by the pros.

pro

1. prophylactic (def. 5).

pro

1. for.

PRO

1. public relations officer.

Pro

1. proline.

pro-

1. a prefix indicating favor for some party, system, idea, etc., without identity with the group (pro-British; pro-Communist; proslavery), having anti- as its opposite.
2. a prefix of priority in space or time having especially a meaning of advancing or projecting forward or outward, and also used to indicate substitution, attached widely to stems not used as words: provision; prologue; proceed; produce; protract; procathedral; proconsul.

pro-

1. a prefix identical in meaning with, occurring in words borrowed from Greek (prodrome) or formed of Greek (and occasionally Latin) elements.