POA

POA may refer to:

• Position of attention, a military term; see At attention
• 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 andviolence
• Puppeteers of America, US puppeteers organisation
• Power of attorney, legal authorization to act on someone else's behalf
• Portable Object Adapter, part of the CORBA specification
• Porto Alegre, Brazil, by IATA airport code for Salgado Filho International Airport located there
• Pacific Ocean Areas, area of the Pacific theater of operations assigned to Admiral Chester Nimitz during World War II
• Pakistan Olympic Association, the National Olympic Committee of Pakistan
• Pony of the Americas, horse breed
• Prison Officers' Association
• Phylogenetic Oligonucleotide Array, an oligonucleotide microarray
• Preoptic area, a brain region
• Phowa, a Tibetan Buddhist meditation technique
• Poa, Burkina Faso, a place in Burkina Faso
• Poa, a genus in Poaceae (the grass family)
• MTR Station code for Po Lam Station
• Present on Admission, a condition Present On Admission to a hospital and which increased compensation from Medicare (United States) for DRG claims, as opposed to a Hospital Acquired Condition
• Price on application, seen on price lists to indicate that price will be given upon request
• Program of Activities (PoA), is a modality of the UNFCCC Clean Development Mechanism
• POA - Period of Availability in the context of tachograph regulations for HGV drivers and working hours for mobile workers in general
• POA - Purchase Order Acknowledgement
• POA - Purchase Order Authorization
• PoA - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book/Film)