LOA

See also: loa, lóa, loá, lôa, Lóa, and lo'a

English

Noun

LOA (plural LOAs)

  1. Initialism of leave of absence.
  2. (military, US) Initialism of letter of appreciation.
  3. (nautical) Initialism of length over all, the length of a ship's hull without attachments.
    • 2022 July 18, Evan Osnos, “The Haves and the Have-Yachts”, in The New Yorker[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 30 July 2022:
      But in the end, nothing says as much about a yacht, or its owner, as the delicate matter of L.O.A.—length over all.

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