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FAS

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Proper noun

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FAS

  1. Initialism of Financial Assistance Scheme.
    • 2016, Fang Yanping, Singapore Teachers: Narratives of Care, Hope and Commitment, page 26:
      In fact, 18 students in my class are under the FAS, compared to an average of four students in each of the other Primary Six classes.
  2. (US) Initialism of Federation of American Scientists.
    • 2023 September 5, Julian Borger, Andrew Roth, “Return of US nuclear weapons to UK would be an escalation, says Russia”, in The Guardian‎[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 30 April 2024:
      FAS estimates Russia has 1,816 tactical, or non-strategic, weapons (shorter range and intended for use in battle rather than for the destruction of whole cities).
  3. (Malaysia, aviation, historical) Initialism of Federation Air Service.
  4. (historical) Initialism of Free African Society.

Noun

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FAS (uncountable)

  1. (medicine) Initialism of fetal alcohol syndrome.
    • 2018, Tommy Orange, There There, Harvill Secker, page 17:
      She said people with FAS are on a spectrum, have a wide range of intelligences, that the intelligence test is biased, and that I got strong intuition and street smarts, that I’m smart where it counts, which I already knew, but when she told me it felt good, like I didn’t really know it until she said it like that.

Adjective

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FAS

  1. (Incoterm) Initialism of free alongside ship.

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