G.P.O.
Americanabbreviation
Example Sentences
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Mr. Blair said individuals who are eligible for a public pension and Social Security can estimate their future benefits by running the numbers on the W.E.P. and G.P.O. calculators.
From New York Times
The teenager was quickly dubbed “G.P.O. Girl,” for the place she’d first turned up.
From The New Yorker
From the waters off Seattle to the maritime border with Canada, 27 divers looked for the giant Pacific octopus, or G.P.O. as it’s called, at 11 sites around Puget Sound last month.
From Seattle Times
“But, was G.P.O. a mistake? Is it just them not understanding how things work or not understanding what it stands for? They could have found a way in and these were the agencies that came up,” Mr. Lewis said.
From New York Times
He might come in himself and see what the commotion is all about for he hasn’t been in the G.P.O. since he was a boy and the English nearly wrecked it with their big guns firing up from the Liffey River.
From Literature
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