LOA
English
Noun
LOA (plural LOAs)
- Initialism of leave of absence.
- (military, US) Initialism of letter of appreciation.
- (nautical) Initialism of length over all, the length of a ship's hull without attachments.
- 2022 July 18, Evan Osnos, “The Haves and the Have-Yachts”, in The New Yorker[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 30 July 2022:
- But in the end, nothing says as much about a yacht, or its owner, as the delicate matter of L.O.A.—length over all.