OA

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "oa"

Translingual

Symbol

OA

  1. (international standards) Indeterminately reserved ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for the African Intellectual Property Organization.

Usage notes

This is an indeterminately reserved code, included as part of ISO 3166-1 on the request of the World Intellectual Property Organization due to its use in the WIPO ST.3 standard, and is not endorsed for general use by the ISO.

English

Preposition

OA

  1. Initialism of on or about.

Noun

OA

  1. Initialism of open access.
  2. Initialism of organizing authority.
  3. Initialism of office assistant.
  4. (UK, census) Initialism of output area.

Adjective

OA (comparative more OA, superlative most OA)

  1. (Philippines) Initialism of overacting.
    He's even more OA than you.
    He's even more overreactive than you.

Proper noun

OA

  1. (scouting) Order of the Arrow

Derived terms

Anagrams

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of OA – see the following entry.
【オンエア】
being on the air, being transmitted by a broadcast station (not necessarily live)
be on the air
(This term, OA (OA), is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Spanish

Proper noun

OA

  1. Abbreviation of Oaxaca. (Mexican state)

Tagalog

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Philippine English OA, from the initialism of English overacting.

Pronunciation

Adjective

OA

  1. (colloquial) overreactive; tending to react in an overexaggerated manner; over the top
    Ang OA mo kasi e!
    It's cuz you're so overreactive!
    Napaka-OA mo naman!
    You're so overreactive!
    'Wag kang OA!
    Don't be overreactive!

Further reading

  • Zorc, R. David, San Miguel, Rachel (1993) Tagalog Slang Dictionary‎, Manila: De La Salle University Press, →ISBN

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