Meanings
- abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Paper Football Association.
- abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Pacific Film Archive.
- abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Police Federation of Australia.
- abbreviationinitialismball gamesInitialism of Professional Footballers' Association.
Omar Beckles is the PFA chair and currently plays for Leyton Orient in League One of the English Football League. The PFA acts as a union for players in England and Wales.
2024 January 22, Thomas Schlachter, “There must be ‘significant consequences’ for clubs failing to deal with racism in stadiums, says player and union official”, in CNN, archived from the original on 28 Mar 2024 - abbreviationinitialismInitialism of PHP for Android.
"PFA aims to make PHP development in Android not only possible but also feasible [by] providing tools and documentation," said PFA founder and developer Ivan Mosquera Paulo, a software engineer at Irontec, near Bilbao, Spain, in an email on Friday.
2010 July 17, “PHP development comes to Google Android”, in Reuters
plural PFAs
- abbreviationcountableuncountablechemistryAbbreviation of paraformaldehyde.
- abbreviationcountableuncountableAbbreviation of polyfluoroalkyl.
- abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of physical fitness assessment, used to determine physical fitness standards in the United States Navy.
- abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of protection from abuse, a restraining order.
404(b)—including a series of domestic abuse incidents defendant perpetrated against victim, a PFA against defendant by victim, and other third-party PFAs entered against defendant to protect other women—as well as evidence from[…]
2019 November 29, Daniel J. Anders, Bobby Ochoa III, Ohlbaum on the Pennsylvania Rules of Evidence, LexisNexis, →ISBN1 more example
The male USC petitioner was candid and embarrassed about the [alleged] physical and mental abuse, that he had been subjected to. He stated that on (a specified date), he had filed a Protection from Abuse (PFA), against the female alien.
2020 February 6, John Garbinski, Green Card Fraud - The Ugly Truth About Immigration Fraud In America, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN
Synonyms & antonyms
Translations
German but see Wohnungsverweisung
- but see Wohnungsverweisungprotection from abuse
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Cite this entry
PFA. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/PFA
“PFA.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/PFA. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “PFA,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/PFA.
Source: PFA on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.