fas

1. pluralplural of fa

plural fases

1. ScotlandobsoleteA border or fringe.
2. ScotlandobsoleteA thing represented as being worthless.

   Not worth a fas

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Financial Assistance Scheme.

   In fact, 18 students in my class are under the FAS, compared to an average of four students in each of the other Primary Six classes.

   2016, Fang Yanping, Singapore Teachers: Narratives of Care, Hope and Commitment, page 26

2. USabbreviationinitialismInitialism of Federation of American Scientists.

   FAS estimates Russia has 1,816 tactical, or non-strategic, weapons (shorter range and intended for use in battle rather than for the destruction of whole cities).

   2023 September 5, Julian Borger, Andrew Roth, “Return of US nuclear weapons to UK would be an escalation, says Russia”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 30 Apr 2024

3. MalaysiaabbreviationhistoricalinitialismaeronauticsInitialism of Federation Air Service.
4. abbreviationhistoricalinitialismInitialism of Free African Society.

1. abbreviationinitialismuncountablemedicineInitialism of fetal alcohol syndrome.

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   She said people with FAS are on a spectrum, have a wide range of intelligences, that the intelligence test is biased, and that I got strong intuition and street smarts, that I’m smart where it counts, which I already knew, but when she told me it felt good, like I didn’t really know it until she said it like that.

   2018, Tommy Orange, There There, Harvill Secker, page 17

1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of free alongside ship.

1. A language spoken in Papua New Guinea.

1. pluralplural of FA

1. pluralplural of FA