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pro-verb

American  
[proh-vurb] / ˈproʊˌvɜrb /

noun

Grammar.

  1. a word that can substitute for a verb or verb phrase, as do in They never attend board meetings, but we do regularly.

Etymology

Origin of pro-verb

First recorded in 1905–10; by analogy with pronoun

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