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
abbreviation
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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
abbreviation
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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 decision to end the processing agreement with the VA “created an emergency,” according to ICE officials.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
One Gulf War veteran with a YouTube channel advertises “Secret Strategies for Winning Big with VA Disability Claims” and charges for “boot camp” tutorials to boost disability ratings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 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
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
She realized she needed help and contacted the VA.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
Nanos said he declined to use the FBI lab in Quantico, Va., because the Florida lab already had samples from family members, workers and others known to have visited the house.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 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 U.S. has deployed more than 300 search-and-rescue personnel from four teams, including teams from Los Angeles County, Florida and Fairfax County, Va., officials said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 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
Stamens not longer than the corolla, which is bright red, as well as the tubular calyx; leaflets glabrous or soft-downy beneath.—Fertile valleys, Va., Ky., Mo., 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
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
But veterans must seek surgeries outside of V.A. hospitals, where they have to rely on private health insurance coverage or pay the costs out of pocket.
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
Freddie and I gave tone to our debilitated constitutions by dining with the ever hospitable V.A. on the Triad.
From Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 by Sir Ian Hamilton
"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
“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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