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CPA

Definition: CPA

CPA

Noun

1. An accountant certified by the state.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Abbreviations & Acronyms: CPA

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

CPA

EnglishChondritic porous aggregatesN/A

CPA

FrenchCour Permanente d'ArbitrageN/A

CPA

GermanCyclophosphamidChemistry

CPA

ItalianCorte permanente di arbitratoN/A

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

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Synonym: CPA

Synonym: certified public accountant (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: CPA

Specialty definitions using "CPA": independent audit. (references)

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Modern Usage: CPA

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Ninja CPA (1993)

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

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Commercial Usage: CPA

DomainTitle

Books

  • Financial Accounting and Reporting (Wiley CPA Examination Review 2003) (reference)

  • Wiley Cpa Examination Review 2002: Business Law and Professional Responsibilities (Wiley Cpa Examination Review. Business Law and Professional respon (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • CPA Exam Preparation: Business Law VIP Series (Very Important Parts of the CPA Exam): Contracts and Sales (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

High Tech

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: CPA

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

It is advisable to secure the services of an attorney and a CPA when establishing a business in Denmark. (references)

Economic History

Denmark

As in the United States, it is advisable to secure the services of an attorney and a CPA when establishing a business. (references)

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

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Usage Frequency: CPA

"CPA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 55.56% of the time. "CPA" is used about 9 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
Noun (proper)55.56%5157,705
Noun (singular)44.44%4175,879
                    Total100.00%9N/A

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CPA

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
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

cpa

1,595

cpa exam review course

46

cpa exam

633

california cpa society

45

cpa review

288

10 10 10k 10q arts ba bachelor bachelor bs cpa financial k nj not ny our pa present q reporting resume science sec us we

44

cpa review course

171

cpa salary

41

becker cpa review

160

texas society cpa

41

cpa firm

151

continuing cpa education

40

accountant accounting audit budgeting business business capital certified cfo chief corporate cpa cpa financial financial financial financial financials internal manager not officer our plan planning planning present president public reporting resume statement tax tax treasury us vice vp we

142

ohio society of cpa

38

becker cpa

131

cpa job

37

cpa requirement

91

becker conviser cpa review

37

cpa florida

79

cpa software

36

cpa exam review

72

become a cpa

34

cpa cpe

71

cpa exam date

32

california cpa

68

cpa training

31

illinois cpa society

67

10 10 10k 10q apply arts ba bachelor bachelor bs cpa description education experience experience financial job job job job k listing mail nj now ny objective opening opportunity pa q reference reporting resume resume resume science sec skill submit work

31

cpa exam requirement

60

cpa review class

30

cpa examination

59

illinois cpa

30

cpa journal

51

georgia society cpa

29

cpa texas

51

cpa study

29

cpa test

49

cpa dallas

29

cpa australia

47

cpa education

28
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations: CPA

Derivations

Words containing "CPA": secpar, secpars. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: CPA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: cap, pac.

Words within the letters "a-c-p"

-1 letter: pa.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-p"
 

+1 letter: camp, cape, caph, capo, caps, carp, chap, clap, crap, paca, pace, pack, pacs, pact, pica.

 

+2 letters: apace, aspic, becap, campi, campo, camps, campy, caped, caper, capes, caphs, capon, capos, caput, carpi, carps, champ, chape, chaps, chapt, cheap, clamp, claps, clapt, clasp, coapt, copal, copra, cramp, crape, craps, culpa, cuppa, epact, pacas, paced, pacer, paces, pacha, packs, pacts, panic, parch, patch, peace, peach, pecan, pical, picas, place, plack, plica, poach, pucka, recap, scalp, scamp, scape, scarp, scaup, scrap, space, spacy, spica, uncap.

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

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Alternative Orthography: CPA


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

43 50 41

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

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

=

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 01010000 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#80 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0050 0041

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

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

375035

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INDEX

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


  

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