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What is the difference between veteran and va?

veteran | va |

As nouns the difference between veteran and va

is that veteran is a person with long experience of a particular activity while va is ford.

As a adjective veteran

is having had long experience, practice, or service.

veteran

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person with long experience of a particular activity.
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  • , title= Engineers of a different kind , passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.
  • A person who has served in the armed forces, especially an old soldier who has seen long service.
  • Derived terms

    * Veterans Day

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Having had long experience, practice, or service.
  • * Macaulay
  • The insinuating eloquence and delicate flattery of veteran diplomatists and courtiers.
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  • , title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=4 citation , passage=Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins like a veteran army that had marched down to drink, only to be stricken motionless at the water’s edge.}}
  • Of or relating to former members of the military armed forces, especially those who served during wartime.
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    va

    Translingual

    Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • The ISO 3166-1 two-letter (alpha-2) code for the Holy See.
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