pro bono

as in nominal
law involving or doing legal work at no cost to the client pro bono work a pro bono case

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Recent Examples of pro bono Border agents released him with a list of pro bono legal service providers. Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 18 Sep. 2024 Incorporate Giving into Policies: Support volunteering or pro bono work as part of your workplace culture. Allbusiness, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024 His five-year pro bono initiative provides crucial guidance to Veteran organizations, ensuring sustainable growth and long-term success. Grace Butler, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024 The Deloitte Health Equity Institute, which has pro bono data and analytical tools to leverage that are accessible to all organizations to start on this journey of making health equity not just a societal concern, but actually a business priority. Fortune Editors, Fortune, 4 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for pro bono 
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Adjective
  • The object of their largesse was an obscure nonprofit called the Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation which, for the better part of two decades, had quietly helped firefighters by raising funds for equipment — often things as nominal as gloves and flashlights — not covered in the city budget.
    David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Ever since, however, TCU has started three wings alongside Van Lith and Sedona Prince, once again making the fifth-year senior the nominal point guard.
    Sabreena Merchant, The Athletic, 20 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Bing, for its part, went off the rails early on, prompting Microsoft to scale back both its personality and the number of questions users could ask it in a given conversation.
    Will Oremus, Washington Post, 5 June 2023
  • At any given moment, 2 million to 10 million Ukrainians have been living in freezing temperatures without electricity.
    Maham Javaid, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2022
Adjective
  • Cease is set to earn $13.75 million this season and is scheduled to reach free agency next offseason.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 26 Jan. 2025
  • To get a free copy of their book Home to Home Local Edition – Kansas City Metro, Kansas and Missouri, just call the office.
    Archway Homes, Kansas City Star, 26 Jan. 2025

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“Pro bono.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pro%20bono. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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