HR

See also: Appendix:Variations of "hr"

Translingual

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian Hrvatska.

Symbol

HR

  1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for Croatia since 1992.
    Synonym: HRV (alpha-3)

English

Pronunciation

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

Noun

HR (countable and uncountable, plural HRs)

  1. Initialism of human resources.
    1. The human capital of an organization.
      Synonyms: personnel, staff
      Hypernyms: persons, people
    2. The management and administration thereof; a department or function that performs those.
      Synonym: personnel
      • 2021 December 28, Kathryn Vasel, “HR executives share some of the biggest challenges of 2021”, in CNN Business[1]:
        Here are some of the biggest challenges HR executives said they faced this year: []
  2. (baseball) Initialism of home runs (in statistics).
  3. (genetics) Initialism of homologous recombination.
    Hypernym: recombination
  4. (philately) Initialism of hinge remnant.
    Hypernym: remnant
  5. (law, politics) Initialism of house resolution.
    Hypernym: resolution
    1. Initialism of [U.S.] House Resolution.
      Alternative forms: H.Res., H. Res.
      Hypernyms: SR < resolution
      Coordinate terms: SB, HB, AR, AB
  6. (occupational health) Initialism of hazard ratio.
    Hypernym: ratio
  7. Initialism of heart rate.
    Hypernym: rate
    Near-synonym: pulse

Proper noun

HR

  1. Abbreviation of Haryana: a state of India.
    Alternative form: IN-HR (ISO symbol)
  2. (various countries) House of Representatives.

Anagrams

Japanese

Etymology

English homeroom

Noun

HR(ホームルーム) • (hōmurūmu

  1. abbreviation of ホームルーム (hōmurūmu)

Romanian

Proper noun

HR

  1. abbreviation of Harghita: a county of Romania

Swedish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from English HR.

Noun

HR

  1. human resources, HR

References