PLA

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The acronym PLA may mean:

• Participatory Learning and Action, an approach used in international development
• People's Liberation Army of the People's Republic of China.
• Palestine Liberation Army
• Phone Losers of America, the computer and telephone hacking group
• Port of London Authority
• Prior Learning Assessment in the field of education and articulation.
• Programmable Logic Array
• Product licensing application, an application to the Food and Drug Administration to get approval of a biologic product
• Public Library Association, a division of the American Library Association
• Polylactic acid, a biopolymer made from natural sugar sources, which can be used as a substitute for petroleum-based polymers
• PLA, an underground rap group from New Zealand now known as the MLA.
• PLA is also a surname from the Catalan region of Spain
• PLA also stands for Project Labor Agreement

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PLA may also mean:

• The Playboy Enterprises stock symbol
• An opcode on the MOS Technologies 6502 to pull the accumulator from the stack
• surgeons' jargon for a pelvic lymphadenectomy, a procedure in which lymph nodes are removed
• The ProLife Alliance, a minor political party in the United Kingdom.