Usually means: Hour, unit of time measurement.
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We found 49 dictionaries that define the word HR:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. HR, hr: Merriam-Webster
  2. HR, Hr, hr: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. HR, Hr, hr: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hr: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hr: Vocabulary.com
  6. HR, HR, Hr, Hr, Hr, hr, hr, hr, hr, hR: Wordnik
  7. hr: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. H.R, Hr, hr: Wiktionary
  9. hr: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hr: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. HR: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. .hr, h.r, hr, hr: Dictionary.com
  13. hr: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. H.R, HR (gene), HR (girl group), HR (radio series), HR, Hr, .hr: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. hr: Rhymezone
  16. H.R, HR, .hr, hr: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  17. hr: FreeDictionary.org
  18. hr: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. HR, Hr: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. hr: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. HR: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. HR: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  5. C-SPAN Congressional Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Crop Abbreviations (No longer online)
  7. HR: Investopedia
  8. Abbreviations in shipping (No longer online)
  9. H.R, H.R. (singer): Legal dictionary
  10. HR: Financial dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hr: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. hr: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. hr: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. hr: Medical dictionary
  6. PERFUSION TECHNOLOGY, OPEN HEART SURGERY AND CARDIOLOGY (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. HR: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hr: MATH SPOKEN HERE!
  2. HR, hr: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. H.R, Hr: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. HR: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  3. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See hring as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Initialism of human resources. [(management) The personnel department of an organization, dealing with the recruitment, administration, management and training of employees; abbreviated as HR.]
noun:  (baseball) Initialism of home runs (in statistics).
noun:  (genetics) Initialism of homologous recombination. [(genetics) The exchange of DNA between regions of homologous chromosomes that occurs during meiosis.]
noun:  (philately) Initialism of hinge remnant.
noun:  (law, politics) Initialism of house resolution.
noun:  (occupational health) Initialism of hazard ratio. [(statistics, medicine) A measure of the chance of an event in one group compared to that of another at a particular time or over a subset of a study's time; the ratio between two groups' hazard rates.]
noun:  Initialism of heart rate. [The number of heartbeats per unit of time, usually expressed as the number of beats per minute.]
noun:  Abbreviation of hour. [(time) A unit of time of one twenty-fourth of a day (sixty minutes).]
noun:  (computing) Initialism of horizontal rule.

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