The Benefit of Associations
admin February 26th, 2010
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Everywhere you turn there are people in this association or that one. There is the homeowners association or HOA in many residential neighborhoods that is there to protect the value of your home. There is an association for just about every profession in the world. Trade associations, health associations, business associations, professional associations and there is even an association for associations where you can be trained on associations. Most of them have acronyms for their name like APRO which stands for the Association of Progressive Rental Organizations.
Did you know that an acronym is an abbreviation of several words that make up a word itself? The word doesn’t have to be a real word such as WHO for World Health Organization. It can be completely made up and it may even get so common place that people don’t realize it’s an acronym such as RADAR which stands for radio detection and ranging. This is called an acronym and is a word so common that no one remembers what it stands for. Another acronym, APRO, is a made-up word and is the official voice of the Rent-To-Own (RTO) industry. It almost gets silly after awhile and has become the brunt of many jokes like in the cartoon Dilbert. More realistically, you can’t function in some industries until you learn the language, mostly made up of acronyms.
While filling out a rent to own contract you may find a couple of acronyms but in legal papers it’s best to stay away from them. You also may find abbreviations that are sometimes referred to as initialisms. This is taking the first letter of each word for an abbreviation and it may sometimes form to be an acronym but not always. CBS, AT&T and IBM are a few that are not acronyms. It seems that a lot of associations try to become acronyms or at least initialisms. Who wants to spell out long strings of words every time you have to write the name?
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