English to English Dictionary

Prevaricate

To speak or act in an evasive way; to quibble or stray from the truth.

Prevent

To stop something from happening or someone from doing something.

Privatization

The transfer of a business, industry, or service from public control or ownership to private ownership and control.

Proaction

The practice of creating or controlling a situation by causing something to happen rather than responding to it after it has occurred.

Proactive

Creating or controlling a situation by causing something to happen rather than responding to it after it has happened.

Proactively

In a way that creates or controls a situation by causing something to happen rather than responding to it after it has happened.

Procedure

An established or official way of doing something.

Process Optimization

The discipline of adjusting a process so as to optimize some specified set of parameters without violating some constraint.

Productivity

The state or quality of being productive; the effectiveness of productive effort, especially in industry as measured in terms of the rate of output per unit of input.

Profession

A paid occupation, especially one that involves prolonged training and a formal qualification.

Professional

A person engaged or qualified in a profession.

Profit-maker

A person, product, business, or investment that generates a significant financial profit.