FHA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does FHA mean? 

• FHA (noun)
  The noun FHA has 1 sense:

1. the federal agency in the Department of Housing and Urban Development that insures residential mortgages

  Familiarity information: FHA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FHA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The federal agency in the Department of Housing and Urban Development that insures residential mortgages

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Federal Housing Administration; FHA

Hypernyms ("FHA" is a kind of...):

agency; authority; bureau; federal agency; government agency; office (an administrative unit of government)

Holonyms ("FHA" is a part of...):

Department of Housing and Urban Development; Housing and Urban Development; HUD (the United States federal department that administers federal programs dealing with better housing and urban renewal; created in 1965)

 Context examples 

The FHA (Forkhead-Associated) domain is a phosphopeptide recognition domain found in many regulatory proteins.

(FHA Domain, NCI Thesaurus)

Expressed in a variety of cell types by human MLLT4 Gene, 1816-aa 206-kDa AF-6 Protein is a possible signal transduction protein controlled by Ras signaling pathways that is strongly similar to afadin (rat) and contains short stretches rich in proline, charged amino acids, serines, or glutamines, 1 dilute domain, 1 FHA domain, 1 PDZ/DHR domain, and 2 RAS-associating domains.

(AF-6 Protein, NCI Thesaurus)