Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation person with AIDS
  • abbreviation Public Works Administration

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  • initialism Pacific Western Airlines
  • initialism Pagan Webcrafters' Association
  • initialism Partial Wave Analysis
  • initialism Pirates With Attitude
  • initialism People With AIDS
  • initialism Philippine Web Awards
  • initialism Piecewise Affine Functions
  • initialism Portuguese West Africa
  • initialism Printed Wire Assembly
  • initialism Pratt & Whitney Aerospace
  • initialism Pro Wrestling Alliance
  • initialism Promethean Workers Association
  • initialism Progressive Writers' Association
  • initialism Portfolio of Water Actions
  • initialism Professional Windsurfers Association
  • initialism Professional Women's Association
  • initialism Professional Wrestling Alliance
  • initialism Public Works Administration
  • initialism Pure Wrestling Association

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Examples

  • The PWA was a government agency created to get Americans back to work during the Depression.

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  • Provisioning 'PWA': Failed to provision databases.

    Site Home Brian Smith - MSFT 2011

  • Provisioning 'PWA': Databases specified for site 'ProjectServer' are as follows:

    Site Home Brian Smith - MSFT 2011

  • Provisioning 'PWA': One or more of the databases already contains schema.

    Site Home Brian Smith - MSFT 2011

  • Provisioning 'PWA': Databases specified for site 'ProjectServer' are as follows:

    Site Home Brian Smith - MSFT 2011

  • Provisioning 'PWA': Databases specified for site 'ProjectServer' are as follows:

    Site Home Brian Smith - MSFT 2011

  • PWA Moderne mixes Moderne with a Classical monumentality.

    Debra Levine: James Dean Broods... and Dances Debra Levine 2011

  • The Observatory, says architectural historian Daniel Paul, who authored the Los Angeles City historic landmark document for all of Griffith Park, is a classic PWA Moderne structure.

    Debra Levine: James Dean Broods... and Dances Debra Levine 2011

  • PWA Moderne mixes Moderne with a Classical monumentality.

    Debra Levine: James Dean Broods... and Dances Debra Levine 2011

  • This is not to say that the Observatory was a PWA project; it wasn't, except for the sculpture near the building shown in photo above.

    Debra Levine: James Dean Broods... and Dances Debra Levine 2011

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