BSA

Specialty Definition: BSA

Domain	Definition
Computing	BSA 1. Business Software Alliance. 2. Bidouilleurs Sans Argent. (1998-10-26). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
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Specialty Definition: BSA

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Several meanings of the acronym BSA are:

Building Societies Association
Business Software Alliance
British School at Athens
British Sociological Association
British Society of Audiology
Basic Skills Agency
UK Boarding Schools Association
British Social Attitudes
British Snowboarding Association
British Surfing Association
Birmingham Small Arms Company (motorcycles etc.)
Blackwell Science Asia
British Stammering Association
Boy Scouts of America
Botanical Society of America
Boston Society of Architects
Bovine serum albumin
Bulgarian Studies Association
Broadcasting Standards Authority

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "BSA."

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"BSA" is a common misspelling or typo for: base, bash, bask, bass, boa, bra.

Crosswords: BSA

Specialty definitions using "BSA": basic street address, Bidouilleurs Sans Argent, Business Software Alliance ♦ Federation Against Software Theft. (references)

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: BSA

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
BSA	English	British Shipbreakers Association	N/A
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: BSA

Synonyms by domain: Bachelor of Scientific Agriculture (food & agriculture, labor), basic serving arrangement (computing), Benzenesulfonic Acid (chemistry), Birmingham Small Arms (military & defense, industry), blood serum agglutination (medicine), body surface area, Bosnian Serb Army (military & defense), Boy Scouts of America (social sciences), British Shipbreakers Association (industry), British Skateboard Association (sports & leisure), British Society of Audiology (industry), British South-Africa (geography), British Speleological Association, bromosalicylanilide (medicine), Buffer Stock Authority (food & agriculture, business), bulk segregant analysis (biology & biotechnology, medicine), Business of South Africa (economics), Business Software Alliance (computing).

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Non-Fiction Usage: BSA

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		The BSA also launched a Consumer Code for Electronics Equipment' to restrict harmful business practices by asking gray marketers to affix stickers to products, including software. (references)
Economic History	Finland	According to BSA, retail software revenue lost to piracy amounted to $46.5 million in 2000. (references)
	Lithuania	The fight against software piracy commenced in 1999. The initiators were the Infobalt Association and the BSA local committee. (references)
	Greece	BSA estimates that the software piracy rate in Greece in 2000 was 66 percent of total sales, the highest in the European Union. (references)
Political Economy	FINLAND	For example, the incidence of software piracy is lower than in the United States, and by some measures (e.g., BSA), is the lowest in the world. (references)
	FINLAND	The Business Software Alliance (BSA), a worldwide software anti-piracy organization, began operations in Finland in January 1994. According to a BSA survey, the rate of software piracy in Finland dropped from 67 percent in 1994 to 30 percent in 2000. Retail software revenue lost to piracy amounted to $ 46.5 million in 2000, BSA reported. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: BSA

"BSA" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 61.54% of the time. "BSA" is used about 39 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	61.54%	24	71,196
Noun (proper)	33.33%	13	97,576
Noun (common)	5.13%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	39	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: BSA

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "BSA": bsa-heparin.
	Ending with "BSA": Heparin-bsa.
	Containing "BSA": phox-bsa-coated.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BSA

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
bsa	908	bsa lifeguard	15
bsa motorcycle	242	bsa bantam	14
bsa wheels	99	bsa clipart	13
bsa scope	88	bsa summer camp	12
bsa merit badge	76	bsa form medical	12
bsa optics	76	bsa part	11
bsa rim	30	bsa b33	10
bsa rifle scope	30	bsa software	10
bsa audit	26	bsa hospital	10
bsa chopper	24	base bsa sea	9
bsa red dot	24	441 bsa victor	9
bsa camp	21	bsa council	9
bsa merit badge requirement	20	bsa dot red scope	9
art bsa clip	19	bsa venturing	9
bsa form	17	bsa binoculars	9
bsa gold star	17	bsa motorcycle for sale	9
bsa motorcycle part	16	b50 bsa	9
bsa air gun	16	bsa ncac	9
air bsa rifle	15	bsa a65	8
bsa m20	15	advertising bsa	8
		bsa national	8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: BSA

Derivations
	Words containing "BSA": ambsace, ambsaces, subsale, subsales, subsample, subsampled, subsamples, subsampling, subsatellite, subsatellites, subsaturated, subsaturation, subsaturations. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: BSA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: abs, bas, sab.
	Words within the letters "a-b-s"
	-1 letter: ab, as, ba.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-s"
	+1 letter: abas, abos, abys, albs, arbs, baas, bads, bags, bals, bams, bans, baps, bars, base, bash, bask, bass, bast, bats, bays, bias, boas, bras, cabs, dabs, gabs, isba, jabs, kabs, labs, nabs, sabe, sabs, scab, slab, stab, suba, swab, tabs, wabs.
	+2 letters: abase, abash, abbas, abbes, abets, ables, abris, abuse, abuts, abyes, abysm, abyss, albas, ambos, baals, babas, babes, babus, backs, baffs, bahts, bails, baits, bakes, balas, balds, bales, balks, balls, balms, balsa, bands, banes, bangs, banks, banns, barbs, bards, bares, barfs, barks, barms, barns, basal, based, baser, bases, basic, basil, basin, basis, basks, bassi, basso, bassy, baste, basts, bates, baths, batts, bauds, bawds, bawls, beads, beaks, beams, beans, bears, beast, beats, beaus, bemas, betas, bimas, blabs, blahs, blams, blase, blast, blats, blaws, boars, boast, boats, bolas, boras, botas, brads, braes, brags, brans, brash, brass, brats, braws, brays, buras, bursa, carbs, crabs, darbs, daubs, drabs, flabs, gambs, garbs, grabs, habus, iambs, isbas, jambs, jubas, kbars, lambs, mabes, nabes, nabis, obias, sabed, saber, sabes, sabin, sabir, sable, sabot, sabra, sabre, sahib, samba, sambo, scabs, scuba, slabs, squab, stabs, subah, subas, swabs, tabes, tabus, tsuba, tubas.
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