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FFA

1 American  

F.F.A. 2 American  
Or f.f.a.

abbreviation

  1. Commerce. free from alongside (ship).


ffa British  

abbreviation

  1. free from alongside (ship)

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Also at the party were six high-school girls from an FFA agricultural program in Tahoka, Texas, who flew in to perform a skit they wrote about cloud seeding.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025

The FFA said the Boeing aircraft was towed to the gate after landing.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2024

They drove a half-hour to a dirt-floor events center in McKinney, a Dallas suburb, for a livestock show organized by local chapters of the 4-H Club and the National FFA Organization.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 2, 2022

George explained that the goals of the Free File Alliance, or FFA, the consortium of tax software firms participating in the program, included keeping the government out of the tax preparation business.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2022

Sixty series were taken, and the values found for the average ET were 4.52 secs, for FFA and 6.24 secs, for FAA, ST being 5.0 secs.

From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Münsterberg, Hugo