PTO

See also: pto

English

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PTO

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

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  Audio (US):

  (file)

Proper noun

PTO

1. Initialism of Patent and Trademark Office
   2. United States Patent and Trademark Office.

      Synonym: USPTO (the more common initialism for this entity)

Translations

United States Patent and Trademark Office

French: Office américain des brevets et marques m German: Patentamt (de) n der Vereinigten Staaten von America. Polish: PTO (pl) n

See also

• United States Patent and Trademark Office on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Noun

PTO (plural PTOs)

2. Initialism of parent-teacher organization.

   Synonyms: PTA, parent-teacher association

4. Initialism of paid time off.

   Hypernym: time off

   Hyponyms: sick day, vacation day, personal day

6. Initialism of power take-off, a powered shaft for driving auxiliary equipment.
7. (logistics) Initialism of pick-to-order.
   • 2004 July 28, Jari Partanen and Harri Haapasalo, “Fast production for order fulfillment: Implementing mass customization in electronics industry”, in International Journal of Production Economics, volume 90, number 2, Netherlands, →DOI, pages 213-222:

     In the case of the three strategies MTS, Make-to-Forecast (MTF) and Pick-to-Order (PTO), the allocation of customer orders takes place in the dispatch area. PTO allows the customer to choose from standard items.

Translations

Parent Teacher Organization

German: Elternvertretung f, Elternbeirat m, Elternausschuss m, Elternpflegschaft f Hungarian: szülői munkaközösség Japanese: PTA (ja) (PTA) Polish: PTO (pl) n

powered shaft for driving auxiliary equipment

French: prise de force (fr) f German: Zapfwelle f Polish: WOM m Spanish: toma de fuerza f

Phrase

PTO

2. Initialism of please turn over (written at the end of the text on a page to say that it continues overleaf).

Translations

please turn over

Dutch: z.o.z. (nl) French: TSVP (fr) Hungarian: ˙⁄. or ⁒, fordíts! Polish: proszę odwrócić Swedish: V.G.V.

See also

• overleaf

Anagrams

• OPT, OPt, OTP, TPO, oPt, opt, opt., pot, top