: a house, apartment building, or residential hotel in which low-income or welfare tenants live in single rooms
standing room only
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Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026
Officials credited the on-site school resource officer (SRO), school nursing staff and responding medical personnel for their swift response.
—Eric MacK, FOXNews.com, 12 Mar. 2026
Upper floors served as workspaces, then as the rooms of an SRO, with bedrooms and bathrooms opening directly off the staircase.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 10 Mar. 2026
During the show’s 2023 Broadway run, SRO audiences were encouraged to dance in place and ponder despots at the same time — a greater disassotiative challenge than walking and chewing gum at the same time, but hardly an insurmountable one.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 21 Feb. 2026
The situation also underscores San Francisco’s heavy reliance on hundreds of SRO hotels in neighborhoods like the Tenderloin, Chinatown and the Mission District, many built in the early 20th century, as a cornerstone of its affordable housing system.
—Laura Waxmann, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Dec. 2025
The show has been a breakout hit for Lincoln Center Theater, selling out its first previews in late September and following up with SRO crowds in after its October 16 opening.
—Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 6 Nov. 2025
In Colorado’s Arapahoe High School Shooting in 2013, there was an SRO on the large campus.
—Laura Carno, Denver Post, 24 Sep. 2025
That role is now shared between sheriff’s deputies, since the former full-time SRO is on leave.
—Chantelle Lee, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
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Noun
After the fire, the city plunged into an inspection of every SRO.
—Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026
Officials credited the on-site school resource officer (SRO), school nursing staff and responding medical personnel for their swift response.
—Eric MacK, FOXNews.com, 12 Mar. 2026
Upper floors served as workspaces, then as the rooms of an SRO, with bedrooms and bathrooms opening directly off the staircase.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 10 Mar. 2026
During the show’s 2023 Broadway run, SRO audiences were encouraged to dance in place and ponder despots at the same time — a greater disassotiative challenge than walking and chewing gum at the same time, but hardly an insurmountable one.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 21 Feb. 2026
The situation also underscores San Francisco’s heavy reliance on hundreds of SRO hotels in neighborhoods like the Tenderloin, Chinatown and the Mission District, many built in the early 20th century, as a cornerstone of its affordable housing system.
—Laura Waxmann, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Dec. 2025
The show has been a breakout hit for Lincoln Center Theater, selling out its first previews in late September and following up with SRO crowds in after its October 16 opening.
—Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 6 Nov. 2025
In Colorado’s Arapahoe High School Shooting in 2013, there was an SRO on the large campus.
—Laura Carno, Denver Post, 24 Sep. 2025
That role is now shared between sheriff’s deputies, since the former full-time SRO is on leave.
—Chantelle Lee, Time, 11 Sep. 2025
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“SRO.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/SRO. Accessed 21 Mar. 2026.
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