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pta

pta is the abbreviation of peseta.

Meaning of peseta

Noun

peseta (plural pesetas)

  1. The former currency of the Spanish Empire and Andorra, divided into 100 céntimos.
    • The task was more to Appleby's liking than the one he had anticipated, and it was necessary, since the smaller merchants in Cuba and also in parts of Peninsular Spain have no great confidence in bankers, and prefer a packet of golden onzas or a bag of pesetas to the best accredited cheque.1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 31, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC
  2. The Equatorial Guinean peseta, a former currency of Equatorial Guinea
  3. The Sahrawi peseta, de jure currency of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
  4. The Catalan peseta, a former currency of Catalonia.

Noun capitalized: PTA

PTA (countable and uncountable, plural PTAs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of parent-teacher association.
    • Faraji, my husband, had been elected co-president of P.S. 307’s P.T.A. along with Benjamin Greene, another black middle-class parent from Bed-Stuy, who also serves on the community education council.2016 June 9, Nikole Hannah-Jones, “Choosing a School for My Daughter in a Segregated City”, in The New York Times Magazine
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of phosphotungstic acid.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of prepaid ticket advice: information sent to an airline that a passenger will collect the ticket at the airport (not the same as an e-ticket).
  4. (Australia, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of permit to acquire: a form lodged with the police to acquire a specific firearm; the authorisation subsequently acquired.
    • Their computer cannot issue a Permit to Acquire to somebody who does not have the appropriate category of licence; or whose licence is about to expire. I am hearing from lots of people who want to know why it's taking weeks, or even months, for the PTA to be issued, when the waiting period is...2003 October 21, CD, “NEWSLETTER FROM THE OFFICE OF JOHN TINGLE MLC 15.10.03”, in aus.politics.guns (Usenet)
    • I think that is the most meaningless sections of the law out of the whole thing, PTA for second and subsequent arms. They are likely processing hundreds of thousands of PTA′s weekly for absolutely no demonstratable purpose with tax payer monies.2004 January 28, Seb, “NEWSLETTER FROM NSW SHOOTERS PARTY January 27 2004”, in aus.politics.guns (Usenet)

Proper noun capitalized: PTA

PTA

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Paul Thomas Anderson, American filmmaker.
    • The result is a film that certainly does amaze, and bears several of the PTA hallmarks: breathtaking confidence, a love of acting and of visual beauty, and an exceptional grasp of the art of storytelling.2008 January 4, Ed Pilkington, “'Tell the story! Tell the story!'”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Verb capitalized: PTA

PTA (third-person singular simple present PTAs, present participle PTAing, simple past and past participle PTAed)

  1. (intransitive, rare) To take part in a parent-teacher association.
    • […] PTAing or marketing or playing bridge or doing God knows what else to fill their days […]1978, Joyce Esersky Goldstein, Feedback: How to Cook for Increased Awareness, Relaxation, Pleasure & Better Communication with Yourself & Those who Eat the Food, page 113
    • […] PTAing, Junior Leaguing, and New Eyes For The Needying to do her bit for the tennis program […]1979, Frank Satterthwaite, The Three-wall Nick and Other Angles: A Squash Autobiography, page 26

Synonyms of pta

Forms of pta

Noun
pluralPTAs
Verb
third-person singular presentPTAs
present participlePTAing
past participlePTAed
pastPTAed

Questions about pta

What does pta mean?
Pta means to take part in a parent-teacher association.
What is pta the abbreviation of?
Pta is the abbreviation of peseta.
What part of speech is pta?
Pta can be a noun, a proper noun or a verb.
What is the plural of pta?
The plural of pta is PTAs.

Words near pta in the dictionary

  1. Pszczyna
  2. pt
  3. PT boat
  4. PT boats
  5. pt.
  6. pta
  7. pta.
  8. Ptacek
  9. Ptaceks
  10. PTAed
  11. ptaeroxylin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pta (page history and authors); PTA (page history and authors); peseta (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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