Proforma
adjective
1.
according to form; as a matter of form; for the sake of form.
2.
Commerce. provided in advance of shipment and merely showing the description and quantity of goods shipped without terms of payment:
a pro forma invoice.
3.
Accounting. indicating hypothetical financial figures based on previous business operations for estimate purposes:
a pro forma balance sheet.
adjective
1.
prescribing a set form or procedure
adverb
2.
performed in a set manner
pro forma [(proh fawr-muh)]
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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