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HR¹

  • /eɪt͡ʃ ɑː(ɹ)/ UK
  • /heɪtʃ ɔɹ/ Ireland
  • /eɪt͡ʃ ɑɹ/ Canada, US

noun HRs

  1. countable, uncountable The human capital of an organization.

    Similar: personnel, staff

  2. countable, uncountable The management and administration thereof; a department or function that performs those. Here are some of the biggest challenges HR executives said they faced this year: […]

    Similar: personnel

  3. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of home runs (in statistics).
  4. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of homologous recombination
  5. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of hinge remnant
  6. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of house resolution
  7. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of [U.S.] House Resolution
  8. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of hazard ratio
  9. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of heart rate Near-synonym: pulse

    Similar: pulse

proper noun

  1. abbreviation Abbreviation of Haryana: a state of India.
  2. House of Representatives.

hr²

noun hrs

  1. abbreviation Abbreviation of hour “Just rawdogged it, 15 hr flight to Melbourne. No movie, no music, just flightmap (I counted to one million twice),” Torren Foot, an Australian music producer, wrote in the caption of a video posted on TikTok last month.
  2. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of horizontal rule <hr/>

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: hour, bhp, h.p, ihp, kw, human resources, personnel, staffing, recruitment, hiring, workforce, manpower, human capital, talent management, employee relations, labor relations

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noun abbreviation of hour

Tiếng Việtg, h

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@misc{hr_2026,
  title = {hr},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hr},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}