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TA

proper nounnounverbadjectivecommon in dialogue

To act as a teaching assistant (for a class).

proper noun

  1. 1

    Variant of Territorial ArmyInitialism of Territorial Army.

noun

  1. 1

    Variant of transportation authorityInitialism of transportation authority.

  2. 2

    Variant of teaching assistantInitialism of teaching assistant.

  3. 3

    Variant of travel agentInitialism of travel agent.

  4. 4

    Variant of target audienceInitialism of target audience.

  5. 5

    Variant of time attackInitialism of time attack.

  6. 6

    Variant of traffic advisoryInitialism of traffic advisory (a type of TCAS warning).

  7. 7

    Variant of transactional analysisInitialism of transactional analysis.

  8. 8

    Variant of term assuranceInitialism of term assurance.

verb

  1. 1

    To act as a teaching assistant (for a class).

    The university offered me a chance to TA this semester.

    I really want to TA Programming 1 some day.

adjective

  1. 1

    Variant of toxin-antitoxinInitialism of toxin-antitoxin.

Forms

plural
TAs
past tense
TAed, TA'd, TA'ed, TAd
past participle
TAed, TA'd, TA'ed, TAd
present participle
TAing, TA'ing
third person singular
TAs, TA's
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).