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    ACCA
    abbreviation
    Associate of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants
  • acca
    acca
    noun
    an academic

ACCA

1 British  

abbreviation

  1. Associate of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

acca 2 British  
/ ˈækə /

noun

  1. informal an academic

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of acca

C20: shortened form of academic

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Kavanaugh, Kagan explained, “is putting the rabbit in the hat” by adding words that do not appear in ACCA.

From Slate Jun. 11, 2021

It involves yet another dispute about the Armed Career Criminal Act, or ACCA, a federal law that consumes a shocking amount of the Supreme Court’s time.

From Slate Jun. 11, 2021

Given that, anyone convicted is automatically guilty of a crime of violence under the definitions of the federal ACCA, Justice Thomas wrote.

From Washington Times Jun. 3, 2019

Yet just four months earlier, the court ruled that Denard Stokeling’s necklace snatch was violent enough to earn him the 15-year sentence called for under the ACCA.

From Washington Times Jun. 3, 2019

Complex Chas Roy-Chowdhury, of the accountancy body ACCA, said there were many similar disputes between companies and tax authorities going on in many other countries.

From BBC Feb. 23, 2010

Thus the letter h is named in Italian, acca; in French, ache, in English, aitch, perhaps originally atch: our church is the Scottish kirk, &c.

From Notes and Queries, Number 185, May 14, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell

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