OA: what does it mean?? O is for? and A?

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OA: what does it mean?? O is for? and A?

Answer 1

Overeaters Anonymous:

What is OA?

Overeaters Anonymous

Overeaters Anonymous is a Fellowship of individuals who, through shared experience, strength and hope, are recovering from compulsive overeating. We welcome everyone who wants to stop eating compulsively.

There are no dues or fees for members; we are self-supporting through our own contributions, neither soliciting nor accepting outside donations. OA is not affiliated with any public or private organization, political movement, ideology or religious doctrine; we take no position on outside issues.

Our primary purpose is to abstain from compulsive overeating and to carry this message of recovery to those who still suffer.

Who Belongs to OA?

In Overeaters Anonymous, you'll find members who are extremely overweight, even morbidly obese; moderately overweight; average weight; underweight; still maintaining periodic control over their eating behavior; or totally unable to control their compulsive eating.

OA members experience many different patterns of food behaviors. These "symptoms" are as varied as our membership. Among them are:

    * obsession with body weight, size and shape

    * eating binges or grazing

    * preoccupation with reducing diets

    * starving

    * laxative or diuretic abuse

    * excessive exercise

    * inducing vomiting after eating

    * chewing and spitting out food

    * use of diet pills, shots and other medical interventions to control weight

    * inability to stop eating certain foods after taking the first bite

    * fantasies about food

    * vulnerability to quick-weight-loss schemes

    * constant preoccupation with food

    * using food as a reward or comfort

Our symptoms may vary, but we share a common bond: we are powerless over food and our lives are unmanageable. This common problem has led those in OA to seek and find a common solution in the Twelve Steps, the Twelve Traditions and eight tools of Overeaters Anonymous.

Answer 2

did you mean QA: it stand for question and answer

Answer 3

OA can stand for a large variety of things depending on the context in which it is used. Here are a few common things that OA can stand for:

- Over All

- Osteo Arthritis

- Over Aged

- Overeaters Annonymous

- Offer Accepted

Answer 4

It can be many things  like: office automation, Olympic airways, Ocular Albinism, offer accepted ...

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Answer 5

Over Acting

The 'Order of the Arrow', An Honor society in the Boy Scouts of America.

Over Achiever

OverAll

Object of Avoidence

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.ph...

- Length overall (also o/a, o.a. or oa), an abbreviation for overall, used when describing the length of a ship.

- an abbreviation for 'on or about' used in US military and government correspondence, as in "it happened o/a 22:30".

- an abbreviation for 'operating as', e.g. as in when one airline company operates a flight on behalf of another.

- Oa (digraph), a digraph

- Oa, a fictional planet in DC Comics

- Obavještajna agencija, the Croatian Intelligence Agency

- Offline Achievements, a program written by ConsoleHeroes.com for managing Xbox 360 Achievements offline

- Oficina Anticorrupción, an Argentine law enforcement agency

- Old Alleynian, an old boy of Dulwich College

- Oleic acid, a monounsaturated omega-9 fatty acid

- Olympic Airlines, the IATA code

- Open access, the free online availability of digital content

- 'Operational amplifier' in electronics

- Order of Appearance, a less-used synonym for Order of battle

- Order of the Arrow, the honor society of the Boy Scouts of America

- Order of Australia, an Australian formal honour

- Original Advocacy, in the National Forensics League

- Orion's Arm, a collaborative, hard sci-fi world-building project

- Osteoarthritis, a degenerative disease of joints

- Overeaters Anonymous, for compulsive overeaters

- Output Area, an area of approximately 100 households derived from the UK Census

- Oxford Archaeology, formerly known as "Oxford Archaeological Unit"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OA

See also :

http://www.acronymfinder.com/OA.html

http://www.acronymattic.com/OA.html

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/OA