"CNA" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: CNAs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} CNA (plural CNAs)
  1. Initialism of certified nursing assistant: a person employed to help a registered nurse care for a patient. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: certified nursing assistant (extra: a person employed to help a registered nurse care for a patient)
    Sense id: en-CNA-en-noun-vZWZqcvy Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 59 41 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 63 37
  2. (mobile telephony) Initialism of cloud native architecture. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: cloud native architecture Categories (topical): Mobile phones

Inflected forms

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