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name
Initialism of Science Applications International Corporation, a defense contractor, one of the largest employee-owned companies in the USA.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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noun
A kind of ketch heavily used in the Black Sea, Tisa, Danube and Sava
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
From French saïque, from Italian saicca, from Ottoman Turkish شایقه (şayka), from Bulgarian ша́йка (šájka) (a variant of Bulgarian ча́йка (čájka)), from Proto-Slavic *čajьka. Doublet of Czajka.
