Meaning

2 senses
  1. Initialism of human resources.

    (countable, uncountable)The human capital of an organization.

  2. (countable, uncountable)The management and administration thereof; a department or function that performs those.

More definitions
  • a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day

Examples

8 sentences
  1. Tom is an HR consultant.

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  2. Do you have an HR team?

    deHaben Sie eine Personalabteilung?

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  3. Mary works in the HR department of a large company.

    deMaria arbeitet in der Personalabteilung einer großen Firma.

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  4. Her overtime leave application was processed quickly by the HR department.

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  5. Sami didn't have to answer to anybody else but his HR director.

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Forms

plural: HRs
SingularHR
PluralHRs

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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