Usually means: People's liberation army, china.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word PLA:

General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. PLA: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. PLA: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Pla, pla, pla: Wordnik
  4. PLA, Pla: Wiktionary
  5. Pla: Dictionary.com
  6. PLA (disambiguation), PLA, Pla: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. PLA: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  8. PLA: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pla: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  3. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  4. PLA: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. PLA(N), PLA: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. PLA, Pla: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  2. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (PLA)

noun:  (military) Initialism of People's Liberation Army.
noun:  The national armed forces of the People's Republic of China.
noun:  (historical, trading) NYSE stock-ticker symbol for Playboy Enterprises, Inc., now PLBY.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (business) Initialism of Port of London Authority.
noun:  Clipping of PLAGF. The national army of the People’s Republic of China.
noun:  (historical, politics) Initialism of Palestine Liberation Army (“a traditional army of the Palestine Liberation Organization, no longer extant”).
noun:  (fandom slang, video games) Initialism of Pokémon Legends: Arceus.
noun:  (electronics, countable) Initialism of programmable logic array. [(electronics) Is a kind of programmable logic device used to implement combinational logic circuits.]
noun:  (organic chemistry) Initialism of polylactic acid. [(organic chemistry) A biodegradable thermoplastic made by polymerization of lactic acid residues.]
noun:  (aviation) Initialism of power lever angle (“angle of the pilot's primary control lever”).
noun:  (software engineering) Initialism of principle of least astonishment. [(software, user interface, design) A principle that the design should match the user's experience, expectations, and mental models.]

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