"type A" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: type As [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} type A (plural type As)
  1. (A person having) a competitive, highly organized, ambitious, impatient personality, according to a certain hypothesis describing two contrasting personality types. Wikipedia link: ABO blood group system, Type A and Type B personality theory Coordinate_terms: type B, type O, type AB Translations (Translations): A型血 (ēixíngxuè) (Chinese Mandarin), groupe A (French), Blutgruppe A (German), Gruppe A (German), A型 (ē-gata) (alt: エーガタ) (Japanese), A형 (eihyeong) (Korean), grupo A (Portuguese), grupa A (Serbo-Croatian)

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