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HOA en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism) Initialism of homeowner association.
    • By asking the community to let Collin continue to live there before he turns 19, the HOA would “ignore one of the community’s most fundamental restrictions,” according to the letter from the association’s attorney. 2020 January 16, Scottie Andrew, “An orphaned teen is being forced out of his grandparents’ senior community because he’s too young”, in CNN:
    • What I deemed a welcoming community when I moved into it (despite its name), feels uncomfortably different to me after someone from my HOA posted on Nextdoor (which groups members into virtual neighborhoods based on their real addresses) about removing “plantation” from Haile Plantation as a consideration toward residents and visitors who are Black, indigenous and people of color (BIPOC). 2020 August 1, Yelena Moroz Alpert, “What my Nextdoor neighbors don’t get about the word ‘plantation’”, in CNN:
    • “We wanted to build something that we’re really proud of — something away from the minted lawns of HOAs in suburbia, where they come to your porch and measure your plants,” Colt said. 2025 March 30, Scottie Andrew, quoting Colt, “Queer and trans homesteaders are conquering the social media frontier”, in CNN:
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy.

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Source: en.wiktionary, “HOA” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

HOA en · PROPN

Meanings

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of Horn of Africa.