M.L.A.

¹ American  

abbreviation

1. Master of Landscape Architecture.

2. Modern Language Association.

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MLA ² American  

1. Modern Language Association.

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MLA British  

abbreviation

1. Member of the Legislative Assembly (of Northern Ireland)

2. Modern Language Association (of America)

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Example Sentences

M.L.A. means member of the legislative assembly; Mr. Sengar was in his fourth term.

From New York Times

The M.L.A.’s departing president, the philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah, has remained neutral during his term, but he said after the vote that he was “strongly opposed to all cultural boycotts.”

From New York Times

“We now have a resolution that the M.L.A. shall not endorse the boycott,” said Mr. Berman, who was among 12 past presidents of the group who signed a letter opposing the boycott.

From New York Times

Waldrop’s poems are not for the nerdy-flirty name-tagged poststructuralists at the M.L.A. bar.

From The New Yorker

The title mocks the language of M.L.A. panels and doctoral theses: if this “lyric ‘I’ ” is, as the theory heads say, a construct, a fiction, what’s it doing wearing “her tight jeans, her big boots, her puffy parka”?

From The New Yorker