See POCA on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_text": "Abbreviation.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "POCA",
"name": "en-prop"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "Prevention of Organised Crime Act"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "South African English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "85 15",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "93 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "94 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
62,
66
],
[
389,
393
]
],
"ref": "2025 May 16, Stan Itshegetseng, “Afrikaner ‘Refugees’ Saga: Final Betrayal, Whiteness, Land, and the War on South Africa’s Sovereignty”, in African Times:",
"text": "We apply Section 50 of the Prevention of Organised Crime Act (POCA) to seize assets of the drug dealer and fraudster—but not to land fraudulently “acquired” via racial exclusion? Is that justice? […] All land lease arrangements must be reviewed, and property sabotaged upon exit must result in criminal prosecution under the Damage to Public Property Act, and Forfeiture proceedings under POCA.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Initialism of Prevention of Organised Crime Act."
],
"id": "en-POCA-en-name-eKCEWwZD",
"links": [
[
"Prevention of Organised Crime Act",
"w:Prevention of Organised Crime Act, 1998"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(South Africa) Initialism of Prevention of Organised Crime Act."
],
"tags": [
"South-Africa",
"abbreviation",
"alt-of",
"initialism"
]
}
],
"word": "POCA"
}
{
"etymology_text": "Abbreviation.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "POCA (uncountable)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "phonetic orthographic computer analysis"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Business",
"orig": "en:Business",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Orthography",
"orig": "en:Orthography",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Pharmacology",
"orig": "en:Pharmacology",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Phonology",
"orig": "en:Phonology",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Acronym of phonetic orthographic computer analysis"
],
"id": "en-POCA-en-noun-2zxlrUXU",
"links": [
[
"pharmacology",
"pharmacology"
],
[
"business",
"business"
],
[
"phonology",
"phonology"
],
[
"orthography",
"orthography"
],
[
"phonetic orthographic computer analysis",
"phonetic orthographic computer analysis#English"
]
],
"qualifier": "identification; naming; coinage; identification; naming; coinage",
"raw_glosses": [
"(pharmacology, business, phonology, orthography, identification, naming, coinage) Acronym of phonetic orthographic computer analysis"
],
"tags": [
"abbreviation",
"acronym",
"alt-of",
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"business",
"communications",
"human-sciences",
"journalism",
"linguistics",
"literature",
"media",
"medicine",
"orthography",
"pharmacology",
"phonology",
"publishing",
"sciences",
"writing"
]
}
],
"word": "POCA"
}
{
"categories": [
"English abbreviations",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English proper nouns",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_text": "Abbreviation.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "POCA",
"name": "en-prop"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "Prevention of Organised Crime Act"
}
],
"categories": [
"English initialisms",
"English terms with quotations",
"South African English"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
62,
66
],
[
389,
393
]
],
"ref": "2025 May 16, Stan Itshegetseng, “Afrikaner ‘Refugees’ Saga: Final Betrayal, Whiteness, Land, and the War on South Africa’s Sovereignty”, in African Times:",
"text": "We apply Section 50 of the Prevention of Organised Crime Act (POCA) to seize assets of the drug dealer and fraudster—but not to land fraudulently “acquired” via racial exclusion? Is that justice? […] All land lease arrangements must be reviewed, and property sabotaged upon exit must result in criminal prosecution under the Damage to Public Property Act, and Forfeiture proceedings under POCA.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Initialism of Prevention of Organised Crime Act."
],
"links": [
[
"Prevention of Organised Crime Act",
"w:Prevention of Organised Crime Act, 1998"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(South Africa) Initialism of Prevention of Organised Crime Act."
],
"tags": [
"South-Africa",
"abbreviation",
"alt-of",
"initialism"
]
}
],
"word": "POCA"
}
{
"categories": [
"English abbreviations",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English proper nouns",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_text": "Abbreviation.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "POCA (uncountable)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "phonetic orthographic computer analysis"
}
],
"categories": [
"English acronyms",
"en:Business",
"en:Orthography",
"en:Pharmacology",
"en:Phonology"
],
"glosses": [
"Acronym of phonetic orthographic computer analysis"
],
"links": [
[
"pharmacology",
"pharmacology"
],
[
"business",
"business"
],
[
"phonology",
"phonology"
],
[
"orthography",
"orthography"
],
[
"phonetic orthographic computer analysis",
"phonetic orthographic computer analysis#English"
]
],
"qualifier": "identification; naming; coinage; identification; naming; coinage",
"raw_glosses": [
"(pharmacology, business, phonology, orthography, identification, naming, coinage) Acronym of phonetic orthographic computer analysis"
],
"tags": [
"abbreviation",
"acronym",
"alt-of",
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"business",
"communications",
"human-sciences",
"journalism",
"linguistics",
"literature",
"media",
"medicine",
"orthography",
"pharmacology",
"phonology",
"publishing",
"sciences",
"writing"
]
}
],
"word": "POCA"
}
Download raw JSONL data for POCA meaning in All languages combined (2.9kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (ccec6f1 and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.