title: DPB
text: # DPB
  
  DPB may stand for:
  
  ## Government
  
  * Domestic Purposes Benefit, in the New Zealand social security system
  * Defense Policy Board of the U.S. Department of Defense
  * Dental Practice Board, a UK government agency now incorporated into the NHS Business Services Authority
  
  ## Science and technology
  
  * Decoded Picture Buffer, used by video decoders
  * USCG deployable pursuit boat, used by the U.S. Coast Guard
  * Diffuse panbronchiolitis, a lung disease
  * Disinfection by-product, in water treatment
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Deer Park Bypass, a freeway in Melbourne, Australia
  * Deutscher Pfadfinderbund (1945)
  * Discounted Payback, an engineering economics measure
  * Dopravný podnik Bratislava, a public transport company in Slovakia
  