PRO FORMA Definition & Meaning

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pro forma

[ proh fawr-muh ]

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according to form; as a matter of form; for the sake of form.
Commerce. provided in advance of shipment and merely showing the description and quantity of goods shipped without terms of payment:
a pro forma invoice.
Accounting. indicating hypothetical financial figures based on previous business operations for estimate purposes:
a pro forma balance sheet.

as a matter of form:
Many of the school assignments appear to be done pro forma.

plural pro forma, pro formas.

pro forma

/ ˈprəʊ ˈfɔːmə /

pro forma

Doing something pro forma means satisfying only the minimum requirements of a task and doing it in a perfunctory way: “Her welcoming address was strictly pro forma: you could tell that her mind was a million miles away.” From Latin , meaning “by form.”

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First recorded in 1565–75; from Latin prō formā

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Latin: for form's sake

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Tellingly, people tended to get more animated when defending the honor of guns than they did when expressing pro forma statements wishing Trump well.

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Blanche also portrayed the ledger entries at issue in the case as pro forma actions performed by a Trump Organization employee.

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Using the pro forma earnings measure known as adjusted EBITDA, which excludes some expenses, it doubled its profit to $128 million.

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When successfully found, each site would then be photographed, GPS located, and recorded on pro forma sheets.

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The songs’ original piano parts, pro forma in the extreme, sound like a piano-vocal reduction of an opera score.

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