VA
abbreviation
VA
1 Americanabbreviation
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Virginia (approved especially for use with zip code).
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Electricity. volt-ampere; volt-amperes. Also va
Va.
2
American
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v.a.
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American
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verb active.
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verbal adjective.
V.A.
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American
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Vicar Apostolic.
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Vice-Admiral.
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(Order of ) Victoria and Albert.
VA
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British
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(in the US) Veterans' Administration
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Vicar Apostolic
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Vice Admiral
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(Order of) Victoria and Albert
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Virginia
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volt-ampere
Va.
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British
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v.a.
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British
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va
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British
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Example Sentences
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Don’t miss: I’m a single 58-year-old veteran in California with $1.5 million and a VA pension.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
Veterans groups and advocates who shaped the 2016 draft plan contend the housing was tacked on to allow the VA to avoid the cost of rehabilitating the building.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Those hopes faded in April when the VA issued a budget that provided nothing for a town center.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
I also receive $4,000 a month in VA disability, and I am eligible for travel reimbursement to qualifying medical appointments.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
Bizarre nightmares finally drove him to the VA for help.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
In the U.S., the highest usage rates are found in small, coastal university towns such as Williamsburg, Va., not in massive tech hubs, according to Ferres.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
They lived in Tysons, Va., in the Washington, D.C., suburbs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
He was born on Sept. 11, 1921 to Lebanese immigrant parents and raised in Beckley, W. Va., a coal town where his father worked as a storekeeper and miner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
At the height of World War II, students in Miss Lillian Craig’s fifth-grade class in Roanoke, Va., wrote to America’s top soldier, Gen. George C. Marshall: How did he select the nation’s senior generals?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
T. helianthoìdes, L. Villous and somewhat viscid, 1–2° high, simple; leaves ovate or rhombic-oblong, sessile by a narrow base; involucral scales and rays about 1´ long.—Sandy soil, Va. and southward.
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
He bethink’d I but everything Betwattled v.n. to be in a distressed state of mind, also v.a.
From A Glossary of Provincial Words & Phrases in use in Somersetshire by Wadham Pigott Williams
Hindustani, seek’hna, v.a., to learn, to acquire; seek’h, s.f., admonition.”
From The English Gipsies and Their Language by Charles Godfrey Leland
Members of the National Guard were stationed outside the federal detention center and downtown Los Angeles V.A. clinic at Alameda and Temple streets, and police cars blocked roads around the federal buildings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2025
He went to the V.A. in 2019 and was told that there was nothing in his record to suggest a military service-associated brain injury.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2024
It also accused the V.A. of letting the issue “languish” in the three years since the department’s secretary, Denis McDonough, said the administration would work to provide the surgeries.
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2024
Takano, the ranking member on the Veterans’ Affairs Committee, said a determination of mental incompetency by the V.A. is typically based on “very serious mental health conditions like schizophrenia and dementia”
From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2024
The illuminated streets bore many devices—of N.E. and V.A., which the Emperor remarked made the word "Neva"—a coincidence on which he appears to have dwelt with his share of the superstition of the Buonapartes.
From Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2 by Sarah Tytler
“Todo te va a salir bien,” read another.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2025
"Ca va?" says Ahmed, testing out his shaky French, with a grin, as he welcomes us at the entrance of the apartment block, a few weeks later.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2025
Well-known songs including "Yo no te pido," "Los años mozos," "Cuba va," and "Yolanda," among others, quickly gained fans and traveled the world.
From Reuters ● Nov. 22, 2022
Take an example from 1582 – "L'eau va viste," a poem by Antoine de Chandieu that was set to music by Paschal de L'Estocart.
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2022
“Est-ce que ma robe va bien?” cried she, bounding forwards; “et mes souliers? et mes bas? Tenez, je crois que je vais danser!”
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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