FOIA

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English

Etymology

First use appears c. 1968, in the publication Administrative Law Review.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

FOIA

  1. (law, US politics) Acronym of Freedom of Information Act.
    • 2017 July 23, Michelle Cottle, “The War on the Freedom of Information Act”, in The Atlantic‎:
      FOIA is what enables regular people to pester powerful federal agencies into handing over information about what they’ve been up to. FOIA’s website calls it “the law that keeps citizens in the know about their government.”

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Verb

FOIA (third-person singular simple present FOIAs, present participle FOIAing, simple past and past participle FOIAed)

  1. (law, transitive) To request or obtain records using the Freedom of Information Act.

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