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.
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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
abbreviation
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In response, Congress established the current system, routing most disputes through the VA and its specialized appellate courts.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026
However, because Johnson is incarcerated, the VA only pays his disability compensation at a 10 percent rate under a federal law governing benefits for incarcerated veterans.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026
While Duncan is a homeowner, he said he was only able to afford it with a 0%-down VA home loan as an Iraq war veteran.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
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
Bizarre nightmares finally drove him to the VA for help.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
Suzy Minken, 70, relocated to Fairfax, Va., from New Jersey in November 2024 to be there in time for the arrival of her granddaughter, who was born in January 2025.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
He co-founded Slave Pit Studios in Richmond, Va., where the concept for Gwar first emerged.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
The Texas-based company said Tuesday that Virginia quarry operator Luck Stone will expand its use of autonomous haul trucks to two additional quarries following an 18-month autonomous hauling pilot at its Bull Run, Va., operation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
Natalie Nguyen, a former Aritzia style adviser, said young girls would come into the store where she worked in Tysons, Va., and ask her what she was wearing and how they could get the look.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Silvery-silky, with long close-pressed hairs; stem slender, often with runners from the base, naked above, bearing few heads; leaves lanceolate or linear, elongated, grass-like, nerved, shining, entire.—Dry sandy soil, Del. to 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
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
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
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 said Mr. Biden demanded that the V.A. “act quickly to be better, to do better.”
From New York Times ● May 21, 2024
Frustrated that the V.A. would not recognize what seemed obvious to him, he started a Facebook group, hoping to find other mortar soldiers with the same symptoms.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2024
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
The kingdom of the Kālachuri or Haihaya kings was known as Chedi, and, according to Mr. V.A.
From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell
Thierry Henry was equal parts elegant and clinical, effortlessly eating up turf, striding through defences like a sixth-former schooling year sevens, scoring worldies and va va vindicating his spot here.
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2026
Some are lucky enough to make it back, but as the Spanish saying goes, “Tanto va el cántaro al agua hasta que se quiebra”: The pitcher goes to the well until it finally breaks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 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
“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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