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CRA

"CRA" is a common misspelling or typo for: car, care, crab, crag, cram, craw.


Abbreviations & Acronyms: CRA

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

CRA

EnglishCivil Rights ActN/A

CRA

ItalianCommissione svizzera di ricorso in materia d'asiloPublic Administration, Law

CRA

LatinRM:Cumissiun svizra da recurs en fatgs d'asilPublic Administration, Law

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: CRA

Specialty definitions using "CRA": Community Reinvestment Act of 1977. (references)
Non-English Usage: "CRA" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Latin (Swiss Asylum Appeals Commission).

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Commercial Usage: CRA

DomainTitle

Books

  • Coûts et profits en archéologie : table ronde interne du CRA, novembre 77 (reference)

  • Community Reinvestment Performance: Making Cra Work for Banks, Communities and Regulators (reference)

  • Jewelry Making for Schools Tradesmen Cra (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: CRA

SubjectTopicQuote

Civil Liberties

Uzbekistan

However, later in the month the CRA found that the Catholic Sunday school was not a formal institution, had been closed improperly, and should be allowed to reopen. (references)

Turkmenistan

The state-supported Council on Religious Affairs (CRA) is part of the government bureaucracy and appears to exercise direct control over the hiring, promotion, and firing of both Sunni Muslim and Russian Orthodox clergy, despite the fact that this role is not listed among the CRA's duties in the Law on Religion. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: CRA

"CRA" is generally used as an unclassified items -- approximately 54.17% of the time. "CRA" is used about 24 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Unclassified Items54.17%1397,576
Noun (singular)20.83%5157,705
Noun (proper)16.67%4175,879
Noun (common)8.33%2245,945
                    Total100.00%24N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: CRA

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "CRA": Coed-y-cra.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CRA

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

cra wiz

4

clinical cra cv research utah

4

associate clinical clinical cra discovery ppd research research resume resume sugen

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: CRA

Derivations

Words beginning with "CRA": craal, craaled, craaling, craals, crab, crabbed, crabbedness, crabbednesses, crabber, crabbers, crabbier, crabbiest, crabbily, crabbing, crabby, crabgrass, crabgrasses, crabmeat, crabmeats, crabs, crabstick, crabsticks, crabwise, crack, crackajack, crackajacks, crackback, crackbacks, crackbrain, crackbrained, crackbrains, crackdown, crackdowns, cracked, cracker, crackerjack, crackerjacks, crackers, cracking, crackings, crackle, crackled, crackles, crackleware, cracklewares, cracklier, crackliest, crackling, cracklings, crackly, cracknel. (additional references)

Words ending with "CRA": ambulacra, fulcra, involucra, micra, sacra, simulacra. (additional references)

Words containing "CRA": acrasia, acrasias, acrasin, acrasins, aircraft, ambulacral, antiaircraft, antiaircrafts, antiaristocratic, antibureaucratic, anticrack, antidemocratic, aristocracies, aristocracy, aristocrat, aristocratic, aristocratically, aristocrats, autocracies, autocracy, autocrat, autocratic, autocratical, autocratically, autocrats, becrawl, becrawled, becrawling, becrawls, bureaucracies, bureaucracy, bureaucrat, bureaucratese, bureaucrateses, bureaucratic, bureaucratically, bureaucratise, bureaucratised, bureaucratises, bureaucratising, bureaucratism, bureaucratisms, bureaucratization, bureaucratizations, bureaucratize, bureaucratized, bureaucratizes, bureaucratizing, bureaucrats, campcraft, campcrafts. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: CRA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: arc, car.

Words within the letters "a-c-r"

-1 letter: ar.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-r"
 

+1 letter: acre, arch, arco, arcs, carb, card, care, cark, carl, carn, carp, carr, cars, cart, char, crab, crag, cram, crap, craw, czar, marc, narc, orca, race, rack, racy, scar.

 

+2 letters: acari, acerb, acorn, acred, acres, acrid, actor, arced, arcus, areca, areic, auric, baric, brace, brach, bract, caber, cadre, cager, caird, cairn, caner, caper, carat, carbo, carbs, cards, cared, carer, cares, caret, carex, cargo, carks, carle, carls, carns, carny, carob, carol, carom, carpi, carps, carrs, carry, carse, carte, carts, carve, cater, caver, cedar, ceria, chair, chard, chare, chark, charm, charr, chars, chart, chary, cigar, circa, claro, clary, clear, cobra, copra, coral, coria, craal, crabs, crack, craft, crags, crake, cramp, crams, crane, crank, crape, craps, crash, crass, crate, crave, crawl, craws, craze, crazy, creak, cream, croak, crura, curia, cymar, czars, daric, erica, escar, facer, farce, farci, farcy, franc, grace, lacer, larch, macer, macro, march, marcs, micra, nacre, narco, narcs, naric, ocrea, orach, orcas, pacer, parch, rabic, raced, racer, races, racks, racon, rance, ranch, ratch, reach, react, recap, recta, roach, sacra, scare, scarf, scarp, scars, scart, scary, scaur, scrag, scram, scrap, serac, taroc, trace, track, tract, triac, vicar, wrack.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: CRA


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 52 41

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    .-.    .-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01010010 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#82 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0052 0041

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

375235

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Abbreviations
9. Acronyms
10. Derivations
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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