VA

See also: Appendix:Variations of "va"

Translingual

Symbol

VA

1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for the Vatican City.

   Synonym: VAT (alpha-3)

English

Proper noun

VA

2. (US, government) Initialism of United States Department of Veterans Affairs.

   Alternative form: V.A.

   He is in a VA hospital.

   • 2025 March 7, Jonathan Swan, Maggie Haberman, “Inside the Explosive Meeting Where Trump Officials Clashed With Elon Musk”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 13 March 2025:

     Mr. Musk’s cuts will affect thousands of veterans — a powerful constituency and a core part of the Trump base. Mr. Collins made the point that they should not wield a blunt instrument and cleave off everyone from the V.A. […] A Department of Veterans Affairs spokesman said, “As President Trump has said, it’s important to increase efficiency and reduce bureaucracy while keeping in place the best and most productive federal employees. V.A. is working with DOGE and the rest of the administration to do just that.”

   • 2025 July 7, Brian Todd, “VA walks back plans for mass layoffs but will still lose tens of thousands of jobs”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     The VA is scrapping those plans for now, but it is on pace to reduce the total number of staffers by nearly 30,000, “through the federal hiring freeze, deferred resignations, retirements and normal attrition,” the agency said in a news release, adding that those cuts will eliminate “the need for a large-scale reduction-in-force.”

4. (postal) Abbreviation of Virginia: a state of the United States.

Noun

VA (countable and uncountable, plural VAs)

1. (management) Initialism of value analysis.
3. Initialism of veterans' affairs.
4. (music) Initialism of various artists.
5. Initialism of voice artist.
6. Initialism of voice actor.
7. Initialism of voice actress.
8. Initialism of volt-ampere.
9. Initialism of virtual assistant.
10. Initialism of visual arts.
11. (electronics) Initialism of vertical alignment (“LCD screen technology”).

    Coordinate terms: IPS, TN

12. (computing) Initialism of virtual address.

Adjective

VA (not comparable)

1. (UK, education) Initialism of voluntary aided.

Anagrams

• A-V, A/V, AV, Av, Av., av, av.

French

Noun

VA

1. (initialism, film) "version anglaise" — English-language version (EV); a film dubbed in English

Alternative forms

• V.A., V. A., va, v.a., v. a.

Derived terms

• VASTF

Related terms

• VF
• VFSTA
• VO
• VOA
• VOASTF
• VOF
• VOFSTA
• VOSTA
• VOSTF

See also

• STA
• STF

Anagrams

• av.

Swedish

Alternative forms

• va

Noun

VA c

1. (infrastructure) initialism of vatten och avlopp (“water and sewer”)
   • 2022, “VA-arbeten på Östra Torg”, in Ljungby Kommun‎^[3], archived from the original on 23 January 2022:

     Ledningsnätet för VA, el, fjärrvärme och fiber ska läggas om inför framtida byggnation [...]

     The pipe network for water and sewer, electricity, district heating and fiber will be rerouted for future construction [...]

2. initialism of virtuell assistent (“virtual assistant”)

   Coordinate term: PA (“personal assistant”)

Derived terms

Sense: infrastructure

• VA-avgift (“water and sewer fee”)
• VA-ledning (“water and sewer pipe”)
• VA-nämnd (“water and sewer board”)
• VA-nät (“water and sewer network”)

See also

• va (“what?; huh?; was; be”)