PTO

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PTO may stand for:

• United States Patent and Trademark Office or any other Patent and Trademark Office
• Parent Teacher Organization, organization that consists of parents, teachers and school staff
• Pacific Theater of Operations, World War II
• Power take-off, a splined driveshaft, usually on a tractor or truck, that can be used to provide power to an attachment or separate machine
• Paid time off, time an employee can draw from to take time off from work, without having to specify a reason
• Public Telecommunications Operator, a service provider of telecommunications services such as telephony and data communications access
• Peeled tail-on shrimp
• Peace Train Organisation, a campaign group set up in response to the repeated bombing of the Dublin to Belfast railway line
• Permission to officiate, a limited form of license to undertake ecclesiastical duties within the Church of England
• Phoenix Thunderbirds Open, a golf tournament on the LPGA Tour from 1962 to 1965
• Please Turn Over, an acronym commonly found on notes and letters that is used when finding insufficient writing space on current page or to refer reader to material on the next page. Sometimes rearranged to "TPO", concurrently meaning "Turn Page Over".

Entertainment

• PTO: Pacific Theater of Operations, a war strategy simulation series by Koei based on the World War II events
• "P:T:O:", a track from the 1977 Klaus Schulze album Body Love
• The Phantom of the Opera (adaptations), The Phantom of the Opera-- the original novel or an adaptation (movie/musical/literature) or the Phantom character from any of these
• Please Turn Over, a 1959 British comedy film
• Promenade Theatre Orchestra, an English quartet founded in 1969

See also

• All pages with titles containing "PTO"
• All pages beginning with "PTO"

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