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FAS

1 American  
  1. fetal alcohol syndrome.

  2. Foreign Agricultural Service.


F.A.S. 2 American  
Or f.a.s.

abbreviation

Commerce.
  1. free alongside ship: without charge to the buyer for goods delivered alongside ship.


FAS British  

abbreviation

  1. free alongside ship

"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 F.A.S.

First recorded in 1875–80

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Ten months later, in January, FAS awarded Databricks, a Thrive-backed artificial-intelligence enterprise company, a $1.8 million sole-source contract to optimize the agency’s procurement analytics and fraud-detection capabilities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026

"But if they don't, then FAS doesn't get diagnosed right away and the child may not get the support that they need until later in life."

From Science Daily ● Dec. 13, 2023

Hans Kristensen, director of the FAS Nuclear Information Project, told me the DF-27 can probably hold either nuclear or conventional warheads, and therefore can be seen as both a strategic and a tactical weapon.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2023

In a separate case, the FAS in January said it had fined Apple around $17.4 million for allegedly forcing Russian developers to use Apple's payment services with the iOS App Store.

From Reuters ● Feb. 27, 2023

“Haven’t they ever heard of separation anxiety? What is the matter with these people? I have taken care of toddlers with FAS, and they are nothing like Boo.”

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko

I would not have written conjecturally on this subject if I could have avoided it; but though Swinney was a F.A.S.

From Notes and Queries, Number 201, September 3, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by George Bell

Charm on a ring, olim penes W. Hamper, F.A.S.

From Notes and Queries, Number 59, December 14, 1850 by Various

F.R.S. and F.A.S., sometime Librarian to the late Archbishop of Canterbury, and Keeper of the MSS. at Lambeth.

From Notes and Queries, Number 52, October 26, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by George Bell

Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song with Historical and Traditional Notices relative to the Manners and Customs of the Peasantry, now first published by R. H. Cromek, F.A.S.

From The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology by Edwin Sidney Hartland

F.A.S., and a Professor of Mathematics in the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, died on the 6th of January at Shooter's Hill, Kent, in the fifty-seventh year of his age.

From The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 by Various

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