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Definition: FICA |
FICANoun1. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| 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 |
FICA | French | Fédération internationale des cheminots antialcooliques | Labor |
FICA | Spanish | Federación Internacional de Control Automático | Computing, Engineering & Technology |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: FICA |
| Non-English Usage: "FICA" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (it fits, stays, suits), Portuguese Brazilian (it fits, it is located, stays, suits). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Tchau Pra Quem Fica (1970) | |
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| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "FICA": c-fica. | |
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| 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 |
fica | 931 | 2003 fica rate | 7 |
fica tax | 173 | 2003 fica tax | 7 |
fica score | 151 | fica mia | 7 |
fica limit | 68 | fica tax limit | 6 |
2003 fica limit | 40 | fica security social | 6 |
fica tip credit | 32 | 2003 fica rate tax | 5 |
fica rate | 30 | fica tax withholding | 5 |
fica maximum | 21 | fica tax table | 5 |
fica tax rate | 20 | definition fica | 4 |
fica tree | 17 | fica percentage | 4 |
2003 fica | 16 | comigo fica | 4 |
fica witholding | 14 | fica limit withholding | 4 |
fica withholding | 13 | cient fica metodologia | 4 |
fica oasdi | 11 | fica table | 4 |
2003 fica maximum | 10 | fica wages | 4 |
fica credit score | 10 | fica payroll | 4 |
fica pelosa | 8 | 2003 fica max | 4 |
fica max | 8 | canad de fica geogr n ubicaci | 4 |
deduction fica | 7 | fica free score | 4 |
fica cap | 7 | 2003 fica withholding | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Derivations | |
Words containing "FICA": acetification, acetifications, acidification, acidifications, ammonification, ammonifications, amplification, amplifications, antidesertification, basification, basifications, beatifically, beatification, beatifications, beautification, beautifications, bourgeoisification, bourgeoisifications, calcification, calcifications, caprification, caprifications, certificate, certificated, certificates, certificating, certification, certifications, certificatory, citification, citifications, clarification, clarifications, classification, classifications, classificatory, coalification, coalifications, codification, codifications, commodification, commodifications, cornification, cornifications, dandification, dandifications, deacidification, deacidifications, decalcification, decalcifications, decertification. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-f-i" | |
-2 letters: ai, fa, if. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-f-i" | |
+1 letter: calif, facia, farci, mafic. | |
+2 letters: biface, califs, fabric, facial, facias, facies, facile, facing, farcie, fascia, fecial, fiacre, fiance, fiasco, fiscal, fracti, pacify. | |
+3 letters: acetify, acidify, aciform, affiche, afflict, backfit, bifaces, bifocal, caffein, caitiff, calcify, carnify, catfish, chafing, clarify, coalify, fabrics, facials, faciend, facings, faction, factoid, faience, fanatic, fancied, fancier, fancies, fancify, fancily, faradic, farcies, farcing, fasciae, fascial, fascias, fascine, fascism, fascist, fatidic, faucial, fecials, fiacres, fiancee, fiances, fiaschi, fiascos, finance, finback, finical, fiscals, flaccid, folacin, frantic, fuchsia, fumaric, icefall, infancy, infarct, infract, maffick, malefic, opacify, pacific, scarify, tackify, traffic, uniface. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 49 43 41 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .. -.-. .- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01001001 01000011 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F I C A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0049 0043 0041 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)40433735 |
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