WPA

abbreviation for

1. Work Projects Administration: the former federal agency (1935–43) charged with instituting and administering public works in order to relieve national unemployment.

WPA

abbreviation for

1. Work Projects Administration or Works Progress Administration

Word History and Origins

Origin of WPA¹

First recorded in 1935

Example Sentences

A new WPA would have helped create jobs and provided some training to underemployed or unemployed youth.

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In contrast to Obamacare, a neo-WPA would have been a difficult target for the GOP.

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For example, the bookmobile was a WPA program—old bread and milk trucks full of nailed-up shelves.

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We have these amazing parks that were park of the WPA in the 1930s.

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The first trails at the area were cut by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the winter of 1936.

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