VA
abbreviation
VA
1 Americanabbreviation
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Virginia (approved especially for use with zip code).
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Electricity. volt-ampere; volt-amperes. Also va
Va.
2
American
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v.a.
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American
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verb active.
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verbal adjective.
V.A.
4
American
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Vicar Apostolic.
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Vice-Admiral.
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(Order of ) Victoria and Albert.
VA
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British
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(in the US) Veterans' Administration
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Vicar Apostolic
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Vice Admiral
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(Order of) Victoria and Albert
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Virginia
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volt-ampere
Va.
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British
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v.a.
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British
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va
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British
abbreviation
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Years of research by the VA has determined troops and veterans are at a 50% higher risk of suicide compared to the general American population.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
“It’s a place to help veterans work through the VA, to help veterans job source, to help veterans come together for Taco Tuesdays and breakfasts and dinners,” Chandler says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Response: In response to questions from ProPublica, VA spokesperson Quinn Slaven defended the agency.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
The congressional letter gives the VA until Aug. 14 to respond.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
She realized she needed help and contacted the VA.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
Williams High School in Arlington, Va., and led the team to a perfect season and state championship.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Nanos said he declined to use the FBI lab in Quantico, Va., because the Florida lab already had samples from family members, workers and others known to have visited the house.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
The Fairfax County, Va., resident enjoys the “mature crowd” and predictable perks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Mike Casey, an adviser in Alexandria, Va., has had many clients employ this conversion strategy, mostly because they already had significant savings and knew more work was coming.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
H. ericoìdes, L. Downy but greenish; leaves slender, awl-shaped, loose; flowers on slender naked stalks; ovary hairy.—Dry sandy soil near the coast, E. Maine to Va.; N. Conway, N. H.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
He bethink’d I but everything Betwattled v.n. to be in a distressed state of mind, also v.a.
From A Glossary of Provincial Words & Phrases in use in Somersetshire by Wadham Pigott Williams
Hindustani, seek’hna, v.a., to learn, to acquire; seek’h, s.f., admonition.”
From The English Gipsies and Their Language by Charles Godfrey Leland
Members of the National Guard were stationed outside the federal detention center and downtown Los Angeles V.A. clinic at Alameda and Temple streets, and police cars blocked roads around the federal buildings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2025
Frustrated that the V.A. would not recognize what seemed obvious to him, he started a Facebook group, hoping to find other mortar soldiers with the same symptoms.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2024
Takano, the ranking member on the Veterans’ Affairs Committee, said a determination of mental incompetency by the V.A. is typically based on “very serious mental health conditions like schizophrenia and dementia”
From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2024
The V.A. will continue to enroll more vets to the database, but this was a symbolic moment.
From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2023
The illuminated streets bore many devices—of N.E. and V.A., which the Emperor remarked made the word "Neva"—a coincidence on which he appears to have dwelt with his share of the superstition of the Buonapartes.
From Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2 by Sarah Tytler
Thierry Henry was equal parts elegant and clinical, effortlessly eating up turf, striding through defences like a sixth-former schooling year sevens, scoring worldies and va va vindicating his spot here.
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2026
Well-known songs including "Yo no te pido," "Los años mozos," "Cuba va," and "Yolanda," among others, quickly gained fans and traveled the world.
From Reuters ● Nov. 22, 2022
L'Estocart's musical arrangement for "L'eau va viste" picks up on this quality of motion.
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2022
His trademark “La pelota se va, se va, se va, y despidala con un beso” is canon now for Spanish-language sports fans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2021
Grandma calls out to the figure as we get closer, “Ça va, Lafayette?”
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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