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    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

The City Ground club had held talks with Wolves over a move for Jose Sa, but have since pivoted to Ortega.

From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 28, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2025

“Did anybody see which way he went? What an exciting day, what? Sa sa cy avaunt, cy sa avaunt, sa cy avaunt!”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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

Relatives of Flores, Maduro’s wife, controlled financing at Petróleos de Venezuela SA, the state oil company known as PdVSA, and black-market oil sales, and engaged in money laundering, according to U.S. prosecutors and Venezuela experts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026

The decision was taken "with the aim of preserving the highest standards of quality, excellence and experience that characterize this international event," organizer Habanos SA said.

From Barron's ● Feb. 14, 2026

It doesn’t mean that Peugeot SA is invulnerable or immortal.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

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

Soc., i, s.a. 1586-7, where is recorded an expense item for a payment to "Mr. Chauncelor" for entering a presentment for collections for the poor.

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

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 Henry Yule

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 Sedley Lynch Ware

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

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

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

Meta spearheaded 2Africa with France’s Orange S.A., alongside other companies.

From Barron's ● Apr. 12, 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

Your novel reminded me of classic American crime fiction like James M. Cain’s “The Postman Always Rings Twice,” or more recent, revenge-themed novels like Alison Gaylin’s “The Collective” or S.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 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

S.A. r. timber        24 Glossy greenish-black; vermilion-red band on tail; f., yellow side of head, neck.

From An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use by John Albert Leach

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

Joy ye, and be ye glaid; for your mede is plentuous in heuenis: for sa thai haue persewit alsa prophetis that war before you.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2023

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

From Slate ● May 5, 2022

Chomp on fresh hearts of palm and radish as you go, and see what you think of that unripe Meyer lemon, standing in for the more hard-to-find citrus, som sa.

From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2020

Just like the term solfege which is made up of the syllables “sol” and “fa,” sargam is comprised of the syllables sa re and ga, the first three pitches of the Indian scale.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

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