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F.F.A.

1 American  
Or f.f.a.

abbreviation

  1. Commerce. free from alongside (ship).


FFA 2 American  
ffa British  

abbreviation

  1. free from alongside (ship)

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In high school, he belonged not just to the F.F.A. but also to the Young Republicans, and he made something of a name for himself as a local political activist.

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The Australian soccer federation, known as F.F.A., said afterward that Saudi team officials had advised them the “tradition was not in keeping with Saudi culture.”

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“As budgets keep getting cut, we keep looking to more creative ways,” said Stefonie Sebastian, education specialist at F.F.A., a national agriculture education group that was once known as Future Farmers of America and that has supported such projects.

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The son of a nurse and a carpenter, he had no farming background when he joined the local F.F.A. chapter last school year.

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Some students wear F.F.A. jackets as if they were sporting varsity letters; they speak with pride about the local chapter’s soil-judging team, which last year fell just shy of qualifying for nationals.

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