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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.
- (law) Initialism of Federal Arbitration Act (9 USC 1).
- (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):
- RNAS (predecessor, WWI)
- RAF (predecessor, interwar)
- RFC
(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.
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