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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.
dba is a noun meaning "(law) a name under which a corporation conducts business that is not the legal name of the corporation as shown in its articles of incorporation". It carries one recorded sense.
(law) a name under which a corporation conducts business that is not the legal name of the corporation as shown in its articles of incorporation
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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 dba come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.