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NFA

NFA noun: a homeless person. Also the initialism of no fixed abode.

Noun (1)

NFA (countable and uncountable, plural NFAs)

  1. (broadly, colloquial) A homeless person.

Verb

NFA (third-person singular simple present NFAs, present participle NFAing or NFA'ing, simple past and past participle NFAd or NFA'd or NFAed)

  1. (UK, slang) To formally end the police investigation of a suspect with no further action.
    • After that interview, I think we can NFA him.

Noun (2) capitalized: Nfa

Nfa (plural Nfa)

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of nakfa.

Also used as

NFA is also the initialism of no fixed abode.

NFA is also the initialism of non-forecast airlift.

NFA is also the initialism of nondeterministic finite-state automaton.

NFA is also the initialism of National Food Authority.

NFA is also the initialism of National Forestry Authority.

NFA is also the initialism of National Firearms Act.

Forms of NFA

Noun
pluralNFAs
pluralNfa
Verb
third-person singular presentNFAs
present participleNFAing
present participleNFA'ing
past participleNFAd
pastNFAd
past participleNFA'd
pastNFA'd
past participleNFAed
pastNFAed

Questions about NFA

What does NFA mean?
NFA means a homeless person.
What part of speech is NFA?
NFA can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of NFA?
The plural of NFA is NFAs.

Words near NFA in the dictionary

  1. Nezla
  2. Nezperce
  3. Neæra
  4. Neředín
  5. NF
  6. NFA
  7. NFA'd
  8. NFA'ing
  9. NFAd
  10. NFAed
  11. NFAing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: NFA (page history and authors); Nfa (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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