CBA

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English

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Noun

CBA (countable and uncountable, plural CBAs)

  1. Initialism of collective bargaining agreement.
  2. Initialism of cost-benefit analysis.
  3. (finance) Initialism of currency board arrangement.

Proper noun

CBA

  1. (law) Initialism of County Bar Association.
  2. (Australia, banking) Initialism of Commonwealth Bank of Australia. [Founded 1912.]

Phrase

CBA

  1. (UK, vulgar, slang) Initialism of can't be arsed.
    • 1996 April 21, Kieron, “Re: olrs and message form”, in alt.fan.douglas-adams[1] (Usenet), retrieved 2016-07-02, message-ID <Dq8E6q.JwB@spuddy.mew.co.uk>:
      And I've seen many examples of abysmal wordwrapping... Me, I CBA changing it, and you really need initials to be used all the time to work properly, else stuff gets mis-attributed.
    • 1996 April 23, Derek James, “Re: Internet Software”, in demon.ip.support.win95[2] (Usenet), retrieved 2016-07-02, message-ID <317d2ceb.4692859@news.demon.co.uk>:
      Each to their own eh Paul? Personally I like WS-FTP TEST version with just the two windows, and more importantly I CBA transferring over all the sites to anything new :o)

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