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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
bja is a noun meaning "the bureau in the Department of Justice that assists local criminal justice systems to reduce or prevent crime and violence and drug abuse". It carries one recorded sense.
the bureau in the Department of Justice that assists local criminal justice systems to reduce or prevent crime and violence and drug abuse
law
Forms marked are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bja come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.