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say it: es-bee-AY
sba is a noun meaning "an independent agency of the United States government that protects the interests of small businesses and ensures that they receive a fair share of government contracts". It is pronounced /ˌɛsˌbiˈeɪ/ — es-bee-AY. It carries one recorded sense.
an independent agency of the United States government that protects the interests of small businesses and ensures that they receive a fair share of government contracts
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 sba come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.