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.
3
American
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verb active.
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verbal adjective.
V.A.
4
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
4
British
abbreviation
Example Sentences
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The old system used by Homeland Security was scrapped after critics questioned why the VA was processing paperwork for a different federal department.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
They point to broader problems in the VA disability system, which is being gamed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
The VA responded to a Freedom of Information Act request from a campus advocate for data with a demand for $20,004.36 in programming costs to retrieve the data.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
Regulatory guardrails embedded in FHA and VA loans such as strict fee caps help protect lower-income borrowers from taking extremely overpriced loans, but many wealthy buyers frequently overpay.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Bizarre nightmares finally drove him to the VA for help.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
Rupireddy lives in Ashburn, Va., with his wife and two kids and was earning a reliable income as a data engineer at a healthcare company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 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
The final years of struggle were mostly in the South, with significant battles fought in Savannah, Ga., Charleston, S.C., and Yorktown, Va., among many others.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
The United States is deploying search and rescue teams from Los Angeles and Fairfax County, Va., to Venezuela to help in recovery efforts, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters in Bahrain.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
Shrub 3–8° high; branchlets and stalks bristly; flowers large and deep rose-color, inodorous; pods glandular-hispid.—Varies with less bristly or nearly naked branchlets; also with smaller flowers, etc.—Mts. of Va. to N. C. and Ga. May, June.
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
An exception is made when revising or treating complications from surgeries that were done outside the V.A. system.
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 department says its data are available for now only to V.A. doctors and scientists, most of whom also have academic appointments.
From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2023
Yes; they were bought last year, and I have had J.S. cut on one, and V.A. on the other.
From The Iron Game A Tale of the War by Henry F. (Henry Francis) Keenan
"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
“Todo va a estar bien, pajarito colibrí, ya no tengas miedo de vivir,” she sings in a powerful lyric soprano voice that fills the air and drowns out the nearby downtown traffic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2024
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
“To Werrer va Brah!” we bellowed, while O’Dell and I sat down hard.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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