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DPA

Specialty Definition: DPA

DomainDefinition

Census

(Delegation of Procurement Authority) A procurement term whereby the General Services Administration, which has the authority for all Federal procurement, delegates the responsibility for procurement to an individual agency. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: DPA

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Deutsche Presse Agentur (German News Agency) was founded 1949 in Germany and has grown to be a major worldwide service to print media, radio, television, online, mobile phones and national news agencies. News is available in German, English, Spanish and Arabic.

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

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: DPA

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.
EntrySourceExpressionField

DPA

EnglishData Protection ActN/A

DPA

FrenchRépartition de probabilité des amplitudesElectrical Engineering

DPA

GermanDiphenylaminN/A

DPA

Greekαρχιτεκτονική πρωτοκόλλου κατ?απαίτησηPost & Telecom

DPA

PortugueseDotações para autorizaçõesN/A

DPA

SpanishDistribución de probabilidad de las amplitudesElectrical Engineering

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: DPA

Synonyms by domain: Data Protection Act (computing), Data Protection Authority (computing, law), demand protocol architecture (post & telecom), Dichloropropionic Acid (chemistry), digital pre-assembly (engineering & technology), Diphenylamine (chemistry), Dipicolinic Acid, directly productive activities (labor), displacement per annum (nuclear energy & physics), Displacement per Atom (nuclear energy & physics, physics), display per atom, Display/Printer Adapter (computing), Dual Photon Absorptiometry (physics).

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Commercial Usage: DPA

DomainTitle

References

  • DPA Holding N.V.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Die Nachrichten-Macher : eine Untersuchung zu Strukturen und Arbeitsweisen von Nachrichtenagenturen am Beispiel von AP und dpa (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: DPA

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

The DPA under the MND is responsible for overseeing offset administration. (references)

In 1971, the DPA was created to modernize and develop the ROK's domestic weapons capabilities. (references)

The DPA is currently responsible for contract management of a four trillion won defense procurement budget. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: DPA

"DPA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "DPA" is used about 8 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)87.5%7133,076
Noun (singular)12.5%1339,140
                    Total100.00%8N/A

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

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Usage in Company Names: DPA

CountryName
Netherlands

DPA Holding N.V.

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DPA

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

dpa

131

dpa state.il.us

21

california dpa

13

dpa microphone

7

deutsche dpa press

6

cav dpa

4

ca dpa

4

dell4me.com dpa info

3

child dpa illinois state.il.us support.htm

3

dpa speaker

3

2.8 dpa slt

2

california dpa state

2

dpa html publicnotice.htm state.il.us

2

dpa hq.com

2

dpa serial software

2

dpa.com tsi

2

athens dpa

2

3246f857 cav dpa

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: DPA

Derivations

Words ending with "DPA": grandpa. (additional references)

Words containing "DPA": baldpate, baldpates, bedpan, bedpans, clodpate, clodpates, deadpan, deadpanned, deadpanner, deadpanners, deadpanning, deadpans, endpaper, endpapers, godparent, godparents, grandparent, grandparental, grandparenthood, grandparenthoods, grandparents, grandpas, hardpan, hardpans, mudpack, mudpacks, sandpainting, sandpaintings, sandpaper, sandpapered, sandpapering, sandpapers, sandpapery, standpat, standpatter, standpatters, standpattism, standpattisms. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: DPA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: dap, pad.

Words within the letters "a-d-p"

-1 letter: ad, pa.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-p"
 

+1 letter: aped, apod, damp, daps, dopa, padi, pads, paid, pard.

 

+2 letters: adapt, adept, adopt, aphid, apods, caped, damps, dopas, drape, gaped, japed, paced, paddy, padis, padle, padre, padri, paged, pagod, paled, panda, pandy, paned, pardi, pards, pardy, pared, pated, paved, pavid, pawed, payed, pedal, plaid, plead, podia, purda, raped, rapid, sapid, spade, spado, spaed, taped, vapid.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: DPA


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 50 41

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    .--.    .-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01010000 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#80 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0050 0041

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

385035

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INDEX

1. Synonyms
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Names: Company Usage
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Abbreviations
8. Acronyms
9. Derivations
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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