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POFMA

Syllables: pof·ma

POFMA is the acronym of Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act.

Verb

POFMA (third-person singular simple present POFMAs, present participle POFMAing, simple past and past participle POFMAed or POFMA-ed)

  1. (Singapore, informal, transitive) To accuse someone of spreading falsehoods online under the same law.
    • When you POFMA someone, it draws attention to what the person said in the first place.2023 August 2, Koh Ewe, “A Wave of Scandals Is Testing the Singaporean Government's Ability to Take Criticism”, in Time, archived from the original on 19 Mar 2025

Proper noun capitalized: Pofma

Pofma

  1. Alternative letter-case form of POFMA.
    • HardwareZone is required to carry the Correction Notice to all end-users in Singapore who use HardwareZone.com," said the Pofma Office said in a statement early on Monday.2020 January 27, “SPH Magazines complies with Pofma correction order on false HardwareZone post”, in Business Times, archived from the original on 30 Dec 2025
    • The Minister in the Prime Minister's Office and Leader of the House has instructed the Pofma Office to do so.2022 February 12, Sue-Ann Tan, “Pofma office issues correction direction to Wake Up, Singapore over COP statements”, in Straits Times

Forms of POFMA

Proper noun
alternative formPofma
Verb
third-person singular presentPOFMAs
present participlePOFMAing
past participlePOFMAed
pastPOFMAed
past participlePOFMA-ed
pastPOFMA-ed

Questions about POFMA

What does POFMA mean?
POFMA means to accuse someone of spreading falsehoods online under the same law.
What is POFMA the acronym of?
POFMA is the acronym of Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act.
What part of speech is POFMA?
POFMA can be a verb or a proper noun.
What is the past tense of POFMA?
The past tense of POFMA is POFMAed.

Words near POFMA in the dictionary

  1. Poffenberger
  2. Poffenbergers
  3. poffertje
  4. poffertjes
  5. Poffs
  6. POFMA
  7. POFs
  8. pog
  9. Pogali
  10. pogamoggan
  11. pogamoggans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: POFMA (page history and authors); Pofma (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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