WPA

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abbreviation

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

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Originally Works Prog·ress Ad·min·i·stra·tion .

Origin of WPA

First recorded in 1935

Words nearby WPA

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How to use WPA in a sentence

A new WPA would have helped create jobs and provided some training to underemployed or unemployed youth.
Time to Bring Back the Truman Democrats|Joel Kotkin|December 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In contrast to Obamacare, a neo-WPA would have been a difficult target for the GOP.
Time to Bring Back the Truman Democrats|Joel Kotkin|December 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
For example, the bookmobile was a WPA program—old bread and milk trucks full of nailed-up shelves.
James Lee Burke Talks About His Fiction, History, and the American Dream|David Masciotra|July 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
We have these amazing parks that were park of the WPA in the 1930s.
Ann Patchett: How I Write|Noah Charney|October 30, 2013|DAILY BEAST

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

WPA

abbreviation for (in the US)

Work Projects Administration or Works Progress Administration

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