HR
abbreviation
HR
1 American
[eych-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
Example Sentences
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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
Shares of the HR software group are soaring.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
You’re an HR dream and could be a model in your company’s marketing materials.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 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
If it normally takes you 10 min. to burn, a sunscreen rated SPF-15 gives you 15 times 10 min., or 2 1/2 hr. of roasting time.
From Time Magazine Archive
It meanders like a 2- hr. 43-min. sax solo by one of Parker's lesser disciples, and it never quite explains how Parker enriched the language of sound.
From Time Magazine Archive
After 1 hr. the tentacles of five of them, as well as the blade of one, were strongly inflected.
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
There are several different legislative options, but the main one that would fully repeal the CTA is H.R.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
He works in H.R., wears a pink shirt, and drives a yellow Subaru.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026
During his 1968 presidential campaign, Nixon explained it to his assistant, H.R.
From Slate ● Apr. 21, 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
The next name suggested was that of the Rev. H.R.
From The Facts of Reconstruction by John R. Lynch
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
“I had no idea I did a 2 hr set tonight,” he said.
From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2022
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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