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Poa vs Loa - What's the difference?

poa | loa |

As initialisms the difference between poa and loa

is that poa is power of attorney while LOA is leave of absence.

As nouns the difference between poa and loa

is that poa is any grass of the genus Poa while loa is in the voodoo religion, a spirit intermediary between Bondye (the creator god) and human beings.

poa

English

Initialism

(Initialism) (head)
  • (legal) power of attorney
  • (commerce) price on application

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    loa

    English

    (wikipedia loa)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • In the voodoo religion, a spirit intermediary between Bondye (the creator god) and human beings.
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 714:
    • Equally surprising is to find St Patrick so prominent in many Vodou shrines, until one remembers that he too had been a slave who had twice crossed the sea, the second time to freedom, and that he had particular power over snakes, like the loa'' (Haitian equivalent of ''orisha ) Dambala Wèdo.

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