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  • Sa
    Sa
    samarium.
  • SA
    SA
    abbreviation
    seaman apprentice.
  • S/A
    S/A
    survivorship agreement.
  • s.a.
    s.a.
    abbreviation
    without year or date.
  • S.A.
    S.A.
    abbreviation
    (used in French and Spanish as an abbreviation forcorporation. )
  • sa
    sa
    abbreviation
    Saudi Arabia

Sa

1 American  
Symbol, Chemistry.
  1. samarium.


SA 2 American  

abbreviation

  1. seaman apprentice.

  2. social anxiety.

  3. sexual assault (or abuse).


S/A 3 American  
  1. Banking. survivorship agreement.


s.a. 4 American  

abbreviation

  1. without year or date.


s.a. 5 American  

abbreviation

  1. semiannual.

  2. sex appeal.

  3. subject to approval.


S.A. 6 American  

abbreviation

  1. (used in French and Spanish as an abbreviation forcorporation. )


S.A. 7 American  

abbreviation

  1. Salvation Army.

  2. seaman apprentice.

  3. South Africa.

  4. South America.

  5. South Australia.


SA 1 British  

abbreviation

  1. Salvation Army

  2. Sociedad Anónima

  3. Société anonyme

  4. South Africa

  5. South America

  6. South Australia

  7. Sturmabteilung: the Nazi terrorist militia, organized around 1924

  8. Saudi Arabia (international car registration)

"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

s.a. 2 British  

abbreviation

  1. semiannual

  2. sex appeal

  3. sine anno

"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

Sa 3 British  

symbol

  1. samarium

"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

sa 4 British  

abbreviation

  1. Saudi Arabia

"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 s.a.4

From Latin sine annō

Origin of S.A.6

< French société anonyme or Spanish sociedad anónima

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If Sporting are to upset both Arsenal and Gyokeres and progress to the last four they would reach a stage Sa Pinto knows well.

From BBC Apr. 7, 2026

It takes a mere 10 minutes to escape traffic and explore the Mae Sa Valley.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 28, 2026

Just moments after Ryan Gravenberch's opener, Florian Wirtz slotted past Jose Sa to put the Reds 2-0 up.

From BBC Dec. 27, 2025

"Brazil's strategic situation is complicated," concluded Fernandes de Sa.

From Barron's Oct. 25, 2025

Sa planche de salut! they teased—his long plank to salvation—a slang expression meaning your last hope.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Ofcom said both AVS Group and Kick Online Entertainment SA had since rolled out age checks on some of their sites.

From BBC May 27, 2026

At the Pozos Colorados terminal, which handles most of the country’s fuel imports, a subsidiary of state-controlled Ecopetrol SA unveiled Colombia’s largest storage tank in June, expanding capacity for refined products.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 26, 2026

Earlier work led by Dr. Wang and Professor Tom Gordon, Head of Immunology at SA Pathology in South Australia, decoded the structure of this PF4 antibody in 2022.

From Science Daily Apr. 10, 2026

Launched in February, the fund owns big European industrials and defense suppliers such as Rhinemetall AG, BAE Systems PLC, Airbus SE, and Safran SA.

From Barron's Apr. 5, 2026

I stare at a table of numbers whose columns are labeled DA DN SA SN, and have to flip back and scan for the explanation: Dissimilar Affirmative, Dissimilar Negative, Similar Affirmative, Similar Negative.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

If A is the area of the plate web in a vertical section, the intensity of shearing stress is fx = S/A and the intensity on horizontal sections is the same.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various

The Po Yi and Ho Ni tribes are mentioned in the Yuan Shi, s.a.

From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Yule, Henry

For examples of fees paid for absolution from an unjust excommunication see Minchinhampton Acc'ts, s.a.

From The Elizabethan Parish in its Ecclesiastical and Financial Aspects by Ware, Sedley Lynch

For examples of bribery see Wing Acc'ts, s.a.

From The Elizabethan Parish in its Ecclesiastical and Financial Aspects by Ware, Sedley Lynch

The name of LOB appears under the form Lo pou in the Yuan-shi, s.a.

From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Yule, Henry

Saturday. s.a., secundum artem=According to art; sine anno=Without date.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

In a statement released Wednesday, Cuba's central bank said a foreign bank was severing ties with Fincimex S.A.,

From Barron's Jun. 3, 2026

Luke Goebel is a guest on the panel “It Goes All the Way to the Top: Crime Organizations, Conspiracies and Secret Societies in Fiction” moderated by Oline Cogdill and featuring fellow authors Ace Atkins, S.A.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 8, 2026

The Dianchi was tracked Friday as it transported 800,000 barrels of Venezuela crude owned by state-run Petróleos de Venezuela S.A., according to Kpler.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 20, 2025

What hurt the outlook for Citi was $726 million in expenses the bank booked related to its sale of a 25% stake in its Mexico business, Grupo Financiero Banamex, S.A. de C.V.

From MarketWatch Oct. 13, 2025

He was quite surprised to observe that this was a sweater, bearing the initials "S.A." braided across its front.

From Ralph in the Switch Tower by Chapman, Allen

He joined ACT UP; co-founded Kambal sa Lusog, a Filipino gay and lesbian group; and was a member of Godzilla, a loose collective of Asian American artists.

From New York Times Feb. 3, 2024

"Para sa bayan," which means "for our country", she told a Filipino news crew after the match in Wellington.

From BBC Jul. 28, 2023

Head to the Seward Park Amphitheater to enjoy food, arts and craft booths, children’s games and cultural and contemporary performances, and help Pista sa Nayon preserve and share Filipino culture.

From Seattle Times Jul. 14, 2023

To do this he cites approvingly an 1848 case and terms like “in ventre sa mere”:

From Slate May 5, 2022

The people sa in their stone chairs on each side of the room and the floor was left free down the middle.

From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis

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