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  • ro.
    ro.
    abbreviation
    recto.
  • RO.
    RO.
    abbreviation
  • R.O.
    R.O.
    abbreviation
    Receiving Office.
  • RO
    RO
    abbreviation
    Romania (international car registration)
  • ro
    ro
    abbreviation
    Romania

ro.

1 American  

abbreviation

  1. recto.

  2. roan.

  3. rood.


RO. 2 American  

abbreviation

  1. rial omani.


R.O. 3 American  

abbreviation

  1. Receiving Office.

  2. Receiving Officer.

  3. Regimental Order.

  4. British. Royal Observatory.


RO 1 British  

abbreviation

  1. Romania (international car registration)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

ro 2 British  

abbreviation

  1. Romania

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Example Sentences

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I mail it at the Canton RO. the next morning.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

I work on a short essay whose deadline has passed, but it’s hard to get my mind to settle, so I open up R.O.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 30, 2020

At the urging of Angela Flournoy, the author of “The Turner House,” Jones is also starting a speaker’s bureau, which represents R.O.

From New York Times Dec. 24, 2018

One patient the sociologists encountered had been relatively calm until she started R.O. training, during which she was continually reminded that she lived in a nursing facility.

From The New Yorker Oct. 1, 2018

Throughout her debut novel, a haunting portrayal of faith, R.O.

From Seattle Times Jul. 26, 2018

One of the amusing features of the campaign, and in opposition to the measure, was a cartoon drawn by R.O.

From Reminiscences of Pioneer Days in St. Paul by Frank Moore

RO: No problem, just going to look now.

From BBC May 12, 2026

RO: Do you want to see it at full speed?

From BBC May 12, 2026

RO: I think I started April 16th and it was around the 17th, in 2016.

From The Verge Oct. 19, 2021

With a hand-operated pump, small RO units can be used in third-world countries, disaster areas, and in lifeboats.

From Textbooks Feb. 14, 2019

RO means reddish orange, being an orange having more red than yellow in its composition.

From Color Value by C. R. (Chandler Robbins) Clifford

"People are living in caravans on their parents land, there are no houses ro rent, this is just another way to regulate the problem."

From BBC Jul. 15, 2024

But for the second year in a ro w, hot and dry weather has lowered the river, allowing a denser, heavier layer of salt water from the Gulf to push inland.

From Seattle Times Oct. 5, 2023

The edginess of the corporate earnings season continued ro rankle in Europe and Asia.

From Reuters Feb. 10, 2023

The wink, wink, nod, nod travels from office designers, builders, owners, Boards of trustees and right through ro security.

From New York Times Nov. 30, 2017

He tried ro sound casual, as though this was a throwaway comment of no real importance, but he was not sure he had achieved the right effect; Lupin’s smile was a little too understanding.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

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