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  • post-renaissance — the activity, spirit, or time of the great revival of art, literature, and learning in Europe beginning in the 14th century and extending to the 17th century, marking the transition from the medieval to the modern world.
  • post-romanticism — romantic spirit or tendency.
  • postremogeniture — a system of inheritance under which the estate of a deceased person goes to his youngest son. Also called ultimogeniture. Compare primogeniture (def 2).
  • postscript point — (unit, text)   The variant of the point used by Postscript, equal to 0.3527777778 mm, or 1/72 inch.
  • poverty-stricken — suffering from poverty; extremely poor: poverty-stricken refugees.
  • practical reason — (in Kantian ethics) reason applied to the problem of action and choice, especially in ethical matters.
  • practice session — a period of training that takes place over a set period of time, for example an hour or several hours
  • prairie schooner — a type of covered wagon, similar to but smaller than the Conestoga wagon, used by pioneers in crossing the prairies and plains of North America.
  • pre-conversation — informal interchange of thoughts, information, etc., by spoken words; oral communication between persons; talk; colloquy.
  • pre-registration — the act of registering.
  • pre-solicitation — the act of soliciting.
  • pre-subscription — a sum of money given or pledged as a contribution, payment, investment, etc.
  • precast concrete — ready-formed cement mixture
  • precinct station — a police station for police responsible for a district of a city
  • predispositional — the fact or condition of being predisposed: a predisposition to think optimistically.
  • preference stock — preferred stock.
  • premier division — a football or soccer league division consisting of the top ten Scottish football teams
  • prescription pad — a pad of prescriptions used by doctors, etc
  • presence of mind — a calm state of mind that allows one to think clearly or act effectively in an emergency.
  • presentation box — a specially designed and attractive box to hold a product, and make it look more impressive
  • prespecification — the act of specifying.
  • press conference — a prearranged interview with news reporters, held to elicit publicity or, as granted by a dignitary, public official, research scientist, etc., to fulfill a request from the press.
  • prestidigitation — sleight of hand; legerdemain.
  • presumptuousness — full of, characterized by, or showing presumption or readiness to presume in conduct or thought, as by saying or doing something without right or permission.
  • pribilof islands — a group of islands in the Bering Sea, off SW Alaska, belonging to the US: the breeding ground of the northern fur seal. Area: about 168 sq km (65 sq miles)
  • price commission — (in Britain) a commission established by the government in 1973 with authority to control prices as a measure against inflation. It was abolished in 1980
  • price comparison — Price comparison is comparing the price of the same product in different outlets.
  • pride oneself on — to be proud of
  • primary consumer — (in the food chain) an animal that feeds on plants; a herbivore.
  • primrose jasmine — an evergreen shrub, Jasminum mesnyi, of China, having thick, shiny leaflets and yellow flowers with a darker eye.
  • print journalism — journalism as practiced in newspapers and magazines.
  • prison psychosis — a state of mental confusion, transitory or permanent, brought on by incarceration or by the anticipation of imprisonment.
  • prisoner of bill — (humour)   (PoB) A derisory term, in use generally among Unix users, for anyone who uses Microsoft products either because they don't know there is anything better (i.e. Unix) or because they would be incapable of working anything more complex (i.e. Unix). The interesting and widespread presumption among users of the term is that (at least at the time of writing, 1998) using anything other than Unix or a Microsoft OS (whether VMS, Macintosh, Amiga) is so eccentric a choice as to be at least somewhat praiseworthy.
  • pro-abolitionist — (especially prior to the Civil War) a person who advocated or supported the abolition of slavery in the U.S.
  • proboscis monkey — a reddish, arboreal monkey, Nasalis larvatus, of Borneo, the male of which has a long, flexible nose: an endangered species.
  • process industry — business of treating raw materials
  • process printing — a method of printing almost any color by using a limited number of separate color plates, as yellow, magenta, cyan, and black, in combination.
  • processing plant — a factory where raw materials are treated or prepared by a special method, esp one where food is treated in order to preserve it
  • production costs — the costs used in manufacturing a product
  • professionalisms — professional character, spirit, or methods.
  • proficiency test — an exam which test how proficient or skilled someone is in a particular activity, field of study, language, etc
  • prognostic chart — a chart showing the predicted state of the atmosphere for a given time in the future.
  • progress payment — an instalment of a larger payment made to a contractor for work carried out up to a specified stage of the job
  • progressive lens — a multifocal eyeglass lens that provides a continuous range of focal power between near and far distances.
  • prometheus bound — a tragedy (c457 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
  • proposal writing — Extension of Fortran for proposal writing.
  • prosecution case — the case brought against someone by a legal authority
  • proslambanomenos — the lowest note of the scale in ancient Greek music
  • protestant ethic — work ethic.
  • proteus syndrome — a condition caused by malfunction in cell growth, in which bone and flesh tissue overgrow in localized areas of the body
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