Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of the armed services who is reported missing following a combat mission and whose status as to injury, capture, or death is unknown.
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- initialism
Missing In Action - initialism Mormonism Mutual Improvement Association
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Public perception of the word "MIA" is ashes on an isolated mountainside, or someone lost at the bottom of the sea.
Thomas, Harry E. 1990
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Public perception of the word "MIA" is ashes on an isolated mountainside, or someone lost at the bottom of the sea.
Brown, Donald H. Jr. 1990
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Public perception of the word "MIA" is ashes on an isolated mountainside, or someone lost at the bottom of the sea.
Gollahon, Gene R. 1990
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Public perception of the word "MIA" is ashes on an isolated mountainside, or someone lost at the bottom of the sea.
Mellor, Fredrick M. 1990
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And, for those of you locally, be warned: the art the MIA is using in its advertising is NOT in the show.
Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2009
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One list that Mr. Pincus kept, said people familiar with it, was known as his MIA list, for executives who did so little he considered them "missing in action."
Zynga Leans On Some Workers to Surrender Pre-IPO Shares Justin Scheck 2011
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For those of you who have been mystified by the federal government's recent handling of the economic crisis, here is another overlooked head-scratcher to add to the list: Why has the SBA been MIA from the menu of policy solutions?
Big Stimulus For Small Business Dan Gerstein 2009
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MIA is festooned with signs bragging that it was selected as the ‘airport of the year’ last year.
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MIA is one of the worst anywhere, well maybe not as bad as Kinshasa, but I still hate it.
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While Christopher was once again MIA, much to the chagrin of Lorelai who had to spend the entire day alone with her mother.
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