Ga
noun
a Kwa language of Ghana, spoken in Accra and vicinity.
Ga
1 American
[gah]
/ gɑ /
noun
Ga
2
American
Symbol, Chemistry.
GA
3
American
Ga.
4
American
abbreviation
G.A.
5
American
abbreviation
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General Agent.
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General Assembly.
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Insurance. Also g.a., G/A general average.
GA
1
British
abbreviation
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General Assembly (of the United Nations)
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general average
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Georgia
Ga
2
British
/ ɡɑː /
noun
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a member of a Negroid people of W Africa living chiefly in S Ghana
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the language of this people, belonging to the Kwa branch of the Niger-Congo family
Ga
3
British
symbol
Ga.
4
British
abbreviation
ga
5
British
abbreviation
Example Sentences
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“Indexed Universal Life policies are often sold as a ‘have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too’ solution: stock-market upside with downside protection and tax-free income,” said Mark Stancato, a certified financial planner with VIP Wealth Advisors in Decatur, Ga.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 16, 2026
John Krafcik, a former CEO of Hyundai Motor America, recalled an evening karaoke session in Seoul more than a decade ago, when Chung grabbed a mic and belted out Queen’s “Radio Ga Ga.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025
After that, he began regularly commuting from his family’s home in South Carolina to the nearest RC track in Savannah, Ga.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2025
Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, the makers of the popular Yakuza series and its Like a Dragon spin-offs, have put out a new game more or less every year since 2020.
From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2025
Amari surmised that women from many different tribes and countries were imprisoned here—Ibo, Ga, and Mandinka.
From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper
“In Western cultures and especially in the U.S., men are just socialized this way,” says Dr. Drew Adelman, a clinical psychologist in Atlanta, GA.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
But there’s a lot of GA areas where everyone can go, so it doesn’t really seem like there’s much of a difference.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
On the official Coachella resale site, Weekend 1 general admission three-day passes and GA with a shuttle pass are hovering around $1,000; VIP are starting at $1,630 as of April 1.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026
Prior to that, she reported on Hyundai’s first U.S. electric vehicle plant for the Current GA through the Dow Jones News Fund.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
In this figure I have first drawn the pavement by means of the diagonals GA, Go, Go, &c., and the vanishing point V, the square at A being given.
From The Theory and Practice of Perspective by G. A. (George Adolphus) Storey
The Blackshear, Ga., logging firm buys standing timber from landowners, deploys logging crews and hauls the wood to mills.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Tammy Wales, a travel agent from Ringgold, Ga., said she gambled on a mystery trip for research purposes: “I’m always looking for the best deals.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Still, their top-secret, multiday bash on Cumberland Island, Ga., was a sizable undertaking.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
A baseball player since age 4, Lansdell was the first girl to pitch at the 7A level at Wheeler High School in Marietta, Ga., and led them to a regional title in 2019.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026
Slender, branching, woody below; leaves linear-oblanceolate, narrowed downward, ½–3´ long, mostly acute; flowers small in terminal and axillary cymes; sepals very narrow, 1½–3´´ long; pod as long, ovate.—Del. to Ga. and E. Tenn. 6.
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
“And because I knew Bryce, because I knew Chip, because my son was thinking about being a G.A. here, I was definitely interested.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2024
The plan will save the cost of gas needed to fire up the ovens every morning, Roeders calculates, even if it means paying staff at family-owned G.A.
From Reuters ● Aug. 9, 2022
Presidents, premiers, monarchs and other dignitaries won’t have to show vaccination cards or other proof of inoculation — they’ll simply attest to it by swiping their ID badges at the assembly hall, G.A.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 17, 2021
“It’s standing, G.A., high energy,” Mr. Mangold said.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 27, 2018
An East Karhidish tale, as told in Gorinhering by Tobord Chorhawa and recorded by G.A.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
In Vietnam, com ga mam toi, or garlicky chicken rice, is often considered a working person’s meal.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 16, 2023
For now, Nun cho ga is in a freezer in the Yukon, several hours from the mine where it was found, awaiting further analysis.
From New York Times ● Jul. 2, 2022
"Nun cho ga is beautiful and one of the most incredible mummified ice age animals ever discovered in the world," said Yukon palaeontologist Grant Zazula.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2022
Inspired by WoonHeng's mom's ga li chap choi, this brothy bowl is a perfect way to use up whatever vegetables are around.
From Salon ● Feb. 2, 2022
It was a humiliation she just learned to endure: shikata ga nai, this cannot be helped.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
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