acca

¹

/ ˈækə /

noun

1. informal.
   an academic

ACCA

²

abbreviation for

1. Associate of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants

Word History and Origins

Origin of acca¹

C20: shortened form of academic

Example Sentences

Two were shot dead by suspected far-left militants outside MSI headquarters on Via Acca Larentia in Rome, while the third was killed by police in riots that followed the shooting.

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No-one was ever prosecuted for the killings, which have become widely known as the "Acca Larentia massacre".

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The leader of the centrist Azione party, Carlo Calenda, said that the Acca Larentia commemoration was an "unacceptable disgrace in a European democracy."

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The images from the Acca Larentia commemoration went viral after they were shared by La Repubblica correspondent Paolo Berizzi, but events of this kind are not unusual in Italy.

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But critics point to the fact that the party logo still has the tricolour flame - long a symbol of neo-fascism - and will see in her silence on the scenes from Acca Larentia a nod to the more extremist side of her support base.

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