HR
abbreviation
HR
1 American
[aych-ahr]
/ ˈeɪtʃˈɑr /
abbreviation
hr.
2
American
Or
h
abbreviation
Hr.
3
American
abbreviation
h.r.
4
American
Or
HR
or
hr
abbreviation
H.R.
5
American
Or
HR
abbreviation
HR
1
British
abbreviation
-
House of Representatives
-
human resources
-
human rights
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Croatia (international car registration)
hr
2
British
abbreviation
-
hour
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Baseball home run
hr
3
British
abbreviation
Etymology
Origin of HR
(for sense 4) from Croatian Hrvatska
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At Sorkin’s version of the Wall Street Journal, everyone up and down the masthead — editors, writers, even interns — insults each other with such relish that someone should be written up by HR.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
Warrant Officer Lee Hargreaves, who commands the flight, said the training was mandatory for all personnel, "from pilots through to chefs, HR specialists through to musicians".
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Your boss and co-workers seem like they are on your side, but you’ll want screenshots of messages and paper trails should she take her complaints to HR.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026
At Barbour's factory in South Shields, HR director Lynn Bassett says being able to collaborate is something they look for in everyone they recruit.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
As he talks, he makes a show of shifting his eyes to one of the handful of pre-party attendees, a pregnant woman named Kat who oversees HR for Burning Man.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
Effort is heavy with over 1.5 hr. wait to launch a boat at times.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 19, 2014
So Glenn flew, in a little ship atop balky booster, spending a total of 5 hr. and 16 min. aloft, as he orbited the planet three times.
From Time ● Feb. 20, 2012
Americans in urban areas spent an average of 46 hr. choked up on the highway in 2002, up from 16 hr. in 1982, according to the Texas Transportation Institute.
From Time Magazine Archive
I learned, for example, that after 4 hr. of folding laundry, my husband will be ready for cheesesteak.
From Time Magazine Archive
A little drop of the same size and strength was also applied to four other glands, and in 1 hr. two became inflected, whilst the other two never moved.
From Insectivorous Plants by Charles Darwin
Smith, whom Duffy has called “the janitor,” rounds out the trio by mopping up the back office and h.r. clutter.
From Forbes ● Jan. 23, 2013
Until Meadows, most people would have considered H.R.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026
It was a fluke, but it led to the promotion of H.R.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026
Including, apparently, President Richard Nixon, heard here on tape discussing, with H.R.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
“Leader Steve Scalise has promised me that my bill Protect Children’s Innocence Act, H.R. 3492, will be brought to the floor for a vote next Wednesday, Dec 17th,” she wrote on X last week.
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2025
Report from the committee on coinage, weights and measures to accompany bill H.R.
From United States Government Publications, v. 8 Jan-Jun 1892 A Monthly Catalog by Compiled
In April of this year, Activision Blizzard converted over 1,000 temporary and contract employees to full time and granted them a minimum base pay starting at $20 / hr.
From The Verge ● May 23, 2022
I had no idea I did a 2 hr set tonight.
From Fox News ● Feb. 24, 2022
“I had no idea I did a 2 hr set tonight,” he wrote on Twitter after the show.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 10, 2022
The sample mean was 1.5 hr, with a sample standard deviation of 0.5 hr.
From Textbooks ● Mar. 27, 2020
The hr aches were like beagles, and trotted along with the master in the way that beagles always have trotted, and a charming way it is.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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