"CBA" meaning in English

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Proper name

Audio: EN-AU ck1 CBA.ogg [Australia]
Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} CBA
  1. (law) Initialism of County Bar Association. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: County Bar Association Categories (topical): Law
    Sense id: en-CBA-en-name-dJQTnbnw Topics: law
  2. (Australia, banking) Initialism of Commonwealth Bank of Australia. Tags: Australia, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: Commonwealth Bank of Australia Categories (topical): Banking
    Sense id: en-CBA-en-name-mlG6ddxJ Categories (other): Australian English, English links with redundant alt parameters, English links with redundant wikilinks, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 26 27 2 2 25 14 Topics: banking, business

Noun

Audio: EN-AU ck1 CBA.ogg [Australia] Forms: CBAs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} CBA (countable and uncountable, plural CBAs)
  1. Initialism of collective bargaining agreement. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: collective bargaining agreement
    Sense id: en-CBA-en-noun-MSK7bh4F Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 26 27 2 2 25 14
  2. Initialism of cost-benefit analysis. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: cost-benefit analysis
    Sense id: en-CBA-en-noun-HkwyLkNg
  3. (finance) Initialism of currency board arrangement. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: currency board arrangement Categories (topical): Finance
    Sense id: en-CBA-en-noun-p9Fw90b- Topics: business, finance
  4. (Ireland, education) Initialism of Classroom-Based Asessment Tags: Ireland, abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable Alternative form of: Classroom-Based Asessment Categories (topical): Education
    Sense id: en-CBA-en-noun-6rh5DDQt Categories (other): Irish English, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 26 27 2 2 25 14 Topics: education

Phrase

Audio: EN-AU ck1 CBA.ogg [Australia]
Head templates: {{head|en|phrase}} CBA
  1. (UK, vulgar, slang) Initialism of can't be arsed. Tags: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, slang, vulgar Alternative form of: can't be arsed Synonyms: cba
    Sense id: en-CBA-en-phrase-wGKIhQGz Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 26 27 2 2 25 14

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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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.