FAS

See also: Appendix:Variations of "fas"

English

Proper noun

FAS

  1. Initialism of Financial Assistance Scheme.
    • 2016, Fang Yanping, Singapore Teachers: Narratives of Care, Hope and Commitment, page 26:
      In fact, 18 students in my class are under the FAS, compared to an average of four students in each of the other Primary Six classes.
  2. Initialism of Federation of American Scientists.
    • 2023 September 5, Julian Borger, Andrew Roth, “Return of US nuclear weapons to UK would be an escalation, says Russia”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
      FAS estimates Russia has 1,816 tactical, or non-strategic, weapons (shorter range and intended for use in battle rather than for the destruction of whole cities).

Noun

FAS (uncountable)

  1. Initialism of fetal alcohol syndrome.
    • 2018, Tommy Orange, There There, Harvill Secker, page 17:
      She said people with FAS are on a spectrum, have a wide range of intelligences, that the intelligence test is biased, and that I got strong intuition and street smarts, that I’m smart where it counts, which I already knew, but when she told me it felt good, like I didn’t really know it until she said it like that.

Adjective

FAS

  1. (Incoterm) Initialism of free alongside ship.

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