FAA
English
Proper noun
FAA
- (aviation) Initialism of Federal Aviation Administration (agency regulating U.S. aviation).
- 2007, Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, 4th Estate (2010), page 244:
- Again he bats back and forth the pages of the thick clipped sheaf of close-typed pages that comprise the results of the FAA investigation into Naomi’s fatal encounter with the northwest slope of Mount Dunkelblum.
- 2024 August 19, “LAKETOWN 115-kV TRANSMISSION LINE PROJECT IN CARVER COUNTY, MN”, in Great River Energy[1], page 25:
- Great River Energy utilized the FAA’s Notice Criteria Tool2 to determine if it would be required to file notice to the FAA prior to construction.
- (law) Initialism of Federal Arbitration Act (9 USC 1).
- (UK, military, nautical, aviation) Initialism of Fleet Air Arm (carrier-borne air force of the U.K.'s Royal Navy).
Coordinate terms
(British maritime armed air service):
(U.S. aviation):
Further reading
- “FAA”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “FAA”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “FAA”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
- “FAA”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “the FAA” (US) / “the FAA” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
Anagrams
Portuguese
Proper noun
FAA f pl (plural only)
- (Angola, military) initialism of Forças Armadas de Angola (“Armed Forces of Angola”)
- Coordinate term: FAPLA
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English FAA (“Federal Aviation Administration”).
Proper noun
FAA f
- FAA
- 2023 July 3, Chris Isidore, “Un prototipo de automóvil volador acaba de obtener un certificado de aeronavegabilidad de la Administración Federal de Aviación de Estados Unidos”, in CNN en Español[2]:
- La FAA confirmó que emitió a la empresa un certificado de aeronavegabilidad especial, que los habilita para fines limitados que incluyen exhibición, investigación y desarrollo.
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