POA

POA may refer to:

Organisations

• Pakistan Olympic Association, the National Olympic Committee of Pakistan
• POA (trade union), a United Kingdom trade union for prison officers
• Prison Officers' Association (Ireland)
• Russian Liberation Army

Science and technology

• Poa, a genus in Poaceae (the grass family)
• Place of articulation, a linguistic term
• Pony of the Americas, a horse breed
• Portable Object Adapter, part of the CORBA specification
• Preoptic area, a brain region
• Price of anarchy, a concept in game theory that measures how the efficiency of a system degrades due to selfish behavior of its agents
• Program of Activities, a modality of the UNFCCC Clean Development Mechanism
• Phylogenetic oligonucleotide array, an oligonucleotide microarray

Law

• Period of Availability (PoA) in EU drivers' working hours regulations
• Power of attorney, legal authorization to act on someone else's behalf
• Public Order Act 1936 (C.6), UK law concerning public disorder and violence
• Public Order Act 1963 (C.52), an amendment to the earlier 1936 Act
• Public Order Act 1986 (C.64), UK law concerning public disorder and violence

Music

• POA (album), a 1973 album by Italian progressive rock band Blocco Mentale
• Paris Opera Awards, an international contest for opera singers held in Paris, France
• Plan of Action, a 2000 album by Canadian ska band The Kingpins

Places

• Poa, Bazèga, Burkina Faso
• Poa, Boulkiemdé, Burkina Faso
• Pacific Ocean Areas, area of the Pacific theater of operations assigned to Admiral Chester Nimitz during World War II
• Po Lam Station, Hong Kong, China
• Salgado Filho International Airport, Porto Alegre, Brazil (IATA airport code)

Other

• Position of attention, a military term
• Price on application, seen on price lists to indicate that price will be given upon request
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)