NPO
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NPO may refer to:
- Non-profit organization
- Nil per os, "nothing by mouth", Latin for a medical instruction to withhold food and fluids from a patient
- Nederlandse Publieke Omroep (Netherlands Public Broadcasting) organization.
- NPO UK Ltd., a company which had stationery and book shops around Northern Ireland, bought by and rebranded Eason & Son N.I. Ltd.
- The Nederlandse Padvinders Organisatie (Netherlands Pathfinder Organisation), one of the Scouting organisations that evolved into the national Scouting organisation of the Netherlands, Scouting Nederland.
- Научно-производственное объединение (Scientific Production Organization), Russian acronym (for example, NPO Lavochkin)
- New Pacific Order, a political game subcultural organization spanning multi-games with thousands of members.
Not to be confused with: NP0 (ends in a zero), a capacitor dielectric material.