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LA
Abbreviation
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Louisiana, a state of the United States of America.
I live in Baton Rouge, LA.
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Lao People's Democratic Republic, a member state of the United Nations.
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Lampung, a province of Indonesia.
LA
Initialism
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Los Angeles, a city in the state of California in the United States.
We went to LA for the summer.
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Lead arsenate, a pesticide introduced in the United States in 1892, mostly replaced by DDT in the late 1940s, and banned in 1988.
chair
Noun
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A chair is a piece of furniture for one person to sit on.
Please, pull up a chair and sit down.
There were six chairs around the table.
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The person who is in charge of a meeting is the chair of the meeting.
The chair opened the floor to questions.
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A chair is a position of professor in a university.
A chair of Mathematics has opened at London University.
chair
Verb
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If you chair a meeting, you are in charge of controlling it.
The meeting was chaired by the head teacher.
est
Abbreviation
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Short for estimate or estimates.
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Short for established.