HR | Meaning In The Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of hr in English hrnoun [ C ] plural hrs Add to word list Add to word list written abbreviation for hour : He ran the marathon in 2 hrs 48 mins.formal The plane departs at 15.00 hrs. Specific periods of time

• all day
• Anthropocene
• around-the-clock
• at the height of something
• British Summer Time
• half hour
• Holocene
• hour
• hour-long
• interwar years
• nanosecond
• Neogene
• nightlong
• Oligocene
• Ordovician
• week
• week-long
• wk
• year
• year-long

See more results » HRnoun [ U ] uk /ˌeɪtʃˈɑːr/ us /ˌeɪtʃˈɑːr/ abbreviation for human resources: An ageing workforce is a worry to many HR bosses. I work in HR and see a lot of job applications from people with no experience.

• Government organisations are really lacking in areas like HR and recruiting.
• Your reps will be meeting HR later today to clarify their stance.
• I got on really well with the HR person in the company.

Office practices

• admin
• administrative
• administratively
• badge in phrasal verb
• badged
• dictate
• dictation
• human resources
• hygiene factor
• in-house
• interoffice
• kaizen
• photocopy
• photostat
• power breakfast
• power lunch
• pp
• remittance
• scrum
• typing

See more results » (Definition of hr from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

hr. | American Dictionary

hr.noun [ C ] Add to word list Add to word list abbreviation for hour (Definition of hr from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

HR | Business English

HRnoun [ U ]   HR uk us Add to word list Add to word list abbreviation for human resources or human resource management : I know from having worked in HR for many years that employers rate this qualification highly.HR manager/professional/department We have developed a checklist of questions that HR managers could use in interviews. (Definition of hr from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) What is the pronunciation of HR?

Translations of hr

in Chinese (Traditional) 小時（hour的縮寫）, 人力資源（human resources 的縮寫）… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 小时（hour的缩写）, 人力资源（human resources 的缩写）… See more in Spanish forma abreviada escrita de “hour”:, hora, forma abreviada de "human resources":… See more in Portuguese forma abreviada escrita de "hour":, hora, h… See more in Turkish in Japanese in Dutch in Czech in Danish in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Swedish in Malay in German in Ukrainian saat, sa. (saat)… See more 時間（じかん）… See more uur… See more hodina (zkratka)… See more t… See more jam… See more (ตัวย่อ) ชั่วโมง… See more giờ… See more godz.… See more timme… See more jam… See more Std., Stunde… See more година… See more Need a translator?

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• HR, at human resource management
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