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privilégié: privileged
privé: private
privément: privately
prix: prize; price
prix Nobel: Nobel Prize (international prize)
prix catalogue: list price (retail selling price of an item, as recommended by the manufacturer or retail distributor, or as listed in a catalog)
prix coûtant: cost price (cost to a manufacturer of producing an item, before any profit is taken)
prix d'achat: buying price, purchase price (price at which something is actually purchased)
prix d'ami: special discount, discount to a friend, mates' rates; good price, friendly price
prix d'éviction: price set very low to drive competitors out of the market
prix de marché: market price
prix de revient: production costs
prix de vente: selling price (price at which an item is actually sold)
prix fixe: a menu in which the entire meal is offered at a single fixed price; the price of such a meal
prix plafond: price ceiling (imposed upper limit on the price charged for goods or services)
prix plancher: price floor (imposed lower limit on the price charged for goods or services)
prix prédateur: price set very low to drive competitors out of the market
prix unitaire: unit price (price of a standard amount of a good)
prière: prayer
prière de: please; used to make formal requests, especially in impersonal contexts such as signage
pro: next
pro: professional; a whiz, someone who is very good at something
pro: professional
pro-business: probusiness
pro-choix: pro-choice; support for the right of a pregnant woman to determine whether to have an abortion or not
pro-verbe: pro-verb
proa: alternative spelling of prao
proactif: proactive (acting in advance to deal with an expected change or difficulty)
proactivement: proactively
proba: probability theory
probabilisme: probabilism
probabiliste: probabilistic
probabilité: probability
probable: likely, probable
probablement: probably
probant: compelling, convincing
probation: probation (especially religious)
probatique: probatic
probatoire: probationary
probiotique: probiotic
probité: probity
problème: problem; trouble
problématique: question, issue
problématique: problematic; problematical
problématiquement: problematically
problématiser: to problematize
problématologie: problematology
problémiste: problemist
proboscidien: proboscidean (animal of the order Proboscidea)
probusiness: alternative spelling of pro-business
procaryote: prokaryote
processeur: processor
processeur graphique: graphics processing unit (specialized electronic circuit designed to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display device)
procession: procession
processionnel: processional
processionnellement: processionally (in procession)
processus: process
processus léger: thread
prochain: fellow man, fellow human being, neighbour
prochain: upcoming; nearby; next