Definition of Pro bono

1. Adjective. Done for the public good without compensation.

Similar to: Unpaid

Definition of Pro bono

1. Adjective. (legal) done without fee, generally for clients of humble means ¹

2. Adverb. In a manner without fee. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pro Bono

pro-inflammatory
pro-life
pro-life faction
pro-lifeism
pro-lifer
pro-lifers
pro-mia
pro-nuclear
pro-peptide
pro-protein
pro-secular
pro-sentence
pro-sentences
pro-sumti
pro-war
pro bono (current term)
pro forma
pro hac vice
pro hoc vice
pro per
pro rata
pro re nata
pro se
pro skirts
pro tanto
pro tem
pro tempore
pro wrestling
proa

Literary usage of Pro bono

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Police Powers Arising Under the Law of Overruling Necessity by William Packer Prentice (1894)
"Repairs may be ordered by writ, allowed in very old law pro bono publico, says Lord Coke;1 or under ordinances of municipal bodies in some places; ..."

2. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"... by him from lord Vaughan, where he say», the king may dispense" with laws mode ' pro bono publico complicati,' but nut with such as were made ' pro bono ..."

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