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
abbreviation
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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Years of research by the VA has determined troops and veterans are at a 50% higher risk of suicide compared to the general American population.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
“It’s a place to help veterans work through the VA, to help veterans job source, to help veterans come together for Taco Tuesdays and breakfasts and dinners,” Chandler says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
“VA psychologists are best in class,” said Russell Lemle, former chief psychologist for the San Francisco VA Health Care System and now a senior policy analyst at the Veterans Healthcare Policy Institute.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
Recent VA data shows those head counts continue to decline.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
He sought help at the VA and used therapy to cope with the depression and rage he was feeling.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
After high school, he traded in his hometown of Orange, Va., for Richmond, where he played his first two years of college football.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
Tamny cites the example of Loudoun County, Va., where data centers account for just 3% of total land in the county, but for 36% of total taxes collected.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Mike Casey, an adviser in Alexandria, Va., has had many clients employ this conversion strategy, mostly because they already had significant savings and knew more work was coming.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
Truelove grew up in Norfolk, Va., and attended Norfolk Collegiate School, an elite private day school.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
Hairy; leaves 3–5-cleft and incised; stamens 15–20; fruit hispid at the top.—Low grounds, 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
In a V.A. survey of transgender and gender-nonconforming veterans conducted in 2022 and 2023, 78 percent of 6,600 respondents said they wanted gender-affirming surgeries.
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2024
V.A. doctors already perform procedures that would be considered gender-reaffirming surgeries.
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 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
For this note I am indebted to Mr. V.A.
From American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips
"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
L'Estocart's musical arrangement for "L'eau va viste" picks up on this quality of motion.
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2022
Later that day, one of Silva’s older classmates vowed, “¡Nadie me va quitar que hable el español!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2022
Hitler had a special dance move called o spana va.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
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