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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

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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

This year, two novelists who had previously attended as waiters, Ingrid Rojas Contreras and R.O.

From New York Times ● Nov. 14, 2019

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

Her blood is also RO, a rare and vital subtype often found in people with black African or Caribbean descent.

From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2026

"For sickle cell we need donors who are RO and that is usually found in donors with black heritage."

From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2023

RO: And if I could add one thing, it would be that we believe that we have a unique portfolio and that it covers a lot of the activity in the home.

From The Verge ● Oct. 19, 2021

Our military forces have a variety of generator- operated RO units that can be transported in vehicles to remote locations.

From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019

The general formulas R2O, RO, etc., placed below the columns show the formulas of the oxides of the elements in the column provided they form oxides.

From An Elementary Study of Chemistry by William McPherson

"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

“You’re kidding,” Alex said. \ro • Father Franco grinned.

From "The Dead and the Gone" by Susan Beth Pfeffer

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