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Definition TLA in British English

TLA noun

noun
1

three letter acronym: the first letters of each of the three words that make up the name of something

Example

Engineers love to use TLAs just to confuse you.

Example

GNU is a recursive TLA that stands for "GNU's not Unix".

Definition TLA in British English