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FOIA

/ˈfɔɪjə/

FOIA is the acronym of Freedom of Information Act.

Verb

FOIA (third-person singular simple present FOIAs, present participle FOIAing, simple past and past participle FOIAed)

  1. (transitive) To request or obtain records using the Freedom of Information Act.

Forms of FOIA

third-person singular presentFOIAs
present participleFOIAing
past participleFOIAed
pastFOIAed

Origin of FOIA

First use appears c. 1968, in the publication Administrative Law Review.

Words that rhyme with FOIA

Questions about FOIA

What does FOIA mean?
FOIA means to request or obtain records using the Freedom of Information Act.
What is FOIA the acronym of?
FOIA is the acronym of Freedom of Information Act.
What part of speech is FOIA?
FOIA is a verb.
How do you pronounce FOIA?
FOIA is pronounced /ˈfɔɪjə/.
What is the past tense of FOIA?
The past tense of FOIA is FOIAed.

Words near FOIA in the dictionary

  1. fohn
  2. fohns
  3. Fohtheyobodufushi
  4. fohty
  5. foi
  6. FOIA
  7. FOIAed
  8. FOIAing
  9. FOIAs
  10. foiba
  11. foibas

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: FOIA (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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