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loca

loca is the plural of locum.

Meaning of locum

Noun (1)

locum (plural locums)

  1. (Australia, UK, informal) A period working as a locum tenens.
    • -- "I suppose you wouldn't like to do a locum for a month on the South coast? Three guineas a week with board and lodging." -- "I wouldn't mind," said Philip. -- "It's at Farnley, in Dorsetshire. Doctor South. You'd have to go down at once; his assistant has developed mumps. I believe it's a very...1915, W.S. Maugham, Of Human Bondage, chapter 116

Noun (2)

locum (plural loca)

  1. (historical) A share in a Genoese trading vessel.

Noun capitalized: LOCA

LOCA (plural LOCAs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism, nuclear energy) Initialism of loss-of-coolant accident.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of liquid optically clear adhesive.

Forms of loca

pluralLOCAs

Questions about loca

What is loca the plural of?
Loca is the plural of locum.
What part of speech is loca?
Loca is a noun.
What is the plural of loca?
The plural of loca is LOCAs.

Words near loca in the dictionary

  1. loc
  2. loc'd
  3. loc'd out
  4. loc.
  5. loc. cit.
  6. loca
  7. Locach
  8. local
  9. local administrative unit
  10. local administrative units
  11. local anaesthetic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: loca (page history and authors); LOCA (page history and authors); locum (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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