Since 1998, the Casia Corporation Holland have been working on The Definitive TLA Wörterbuch to help people find their way in the ever growing intellectual chaos caused by the late-twentieth century tendency to use as many acronyms in daily communication as possible. Especially acronyms with a length of three letters have been and continue to be immensly popular, not only in Information and Communication Technology circles, but also among people in more mundane fields of labour; a tendency that has mushroomed with the advent of mobile communication and the combined growing popularity of Short Message Services.
At present, there are 7540 TLAs in the database.
Of these, 4496 are distinct, out of 17576 possible (25.58%).
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| C | ||
| CAA | Chicago Antifascist Action | |
| Civil Aviation Authority | ||
| Constant Angular Acceleration | ||
| CAB | Change Advisory Board | |
| Complex Active Bodies | ||
| CAC | Codex Alimentarius Commissie | |
| Compartmented Advisory Committee | ||
| CAD | Cartridge Actuator Device | |
| Computer Aided Design | ||
| Computer Aided Despatch | ||
| CAE | Computer-Aided Engineering | |
| CAF | Cancelable Async Flows | |
| Combiteams Aanpak Facilitators | ||
| CAG | Carrier Air Group | |
| CAI | centrale antenne-installatie | |
| Clark Art Institute | ||
| CAM | Computer Aided Manufacturing | |
| Continuous Air Monitor | ||
| CAN | Campus Area Network | |
| CAO | Chief Apology Officer | |
| Collectieve Arbeidsovereenkomst | ||
| Conception Assistée par Ordinateur | ||
| CAP | Common Agricultural Policy | |
| Consistency, Availability, Percistency | ||
| CAR | Cart Abandonment Rate | |
| Conflict Armament Research | ||
| Cortisol Awakening Response | ||
| CAS | Certificate Authentication Service | |
| Chinese Academy of Sciences | ||
| Christians Against Satellites | ||
| Cloud Appreciation Society | ||
| Column-Address Strobe | ||
| Court of Arbitration for Sport | ||
| CAT | Civil Air Transport | |
| Clear Air Turbulence | ||
| Commercial Air Transport | ||
| Computer Aided Telephony | ||
| CAV | Centrum voor Academische Vorming | |
| Constant Angular Velocity | ||
| CBA | Canadian Bankers Association | |
| Cold Boot Attack | ||
| Commonwealth Bank of Australia | ||
| Condition Based Assessment | ||
| CBE | Christian Body Experiment | |
| Commander of the British Empire | ||
| CBG | College ter Beoordeling van Geneesmiddelen | |
| CBI | Confederation of British Industry | |
| CBK | Centraal Brouwerij Kantoor | |
| CBL | Centraal Bureau Levensmiddelenhandel | |
| Common Based Language | ||
| CBM | Commodore Business Machines | |
| CBN | Christian Broadcasting Network | |
| CBP | College Bescherming Persoonsgegevens | |
| CBR | Centraal Bureau Rijvaardigheidsbewijzen | |
| Comic Book aRchive | ||
| Congressional Budget Resolution | ||
| Content-Based Routing | ||
| Cosmic Background Radiation | ||
| CBS | Centraal Bureau voor Statistiek | |
| Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures | ||
| College van Beroep voor Studenten | ||
| Columbia Broadcasting Systems | ||
| Cybernetic Broadcasting Systems | ||
| CBT | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy | |
| Cognitive Behavioural Therapy | ||
| Computer based training | ||
| CBW | Chemical and Biological Weapons/Warfare | |
| CCA | Creative Commons Attribution | |
| Cricket Club Arnhem | ||
| Cross Cutting Aspect | ||
| CCC | Campus Crusade for Christ | |
| Chaos Computer Club | ||
| Chrysler Comprehensive Compensation | ||
| Conformal Cyclic Cosmology | ||
| Council of Conservative Citizens | ||
| County Cricket Club | ||
| Covenant Celebration Church | ||
| Cray Computer Corporation | ||
| Customer Contact Center | ||
| CCD | Charge Coupled Device | |
| Coded Control Device | ||
| Consumer Computing Device | ||
| Customer Due Diligence | ||
| CCF | Common Cause Failure | |
| Compassion Capital Fund | ||
| Coöperatieve Condensfabriek Friesland | ||
| CCG | Cricket Club Groenendaal | |
| CCH | Casia Corporation Holland | |
| CCI | Camping Card International | |
| CCL | Childless Cat Lady | |
| CCN | Creative Commons Naamsvermelding | |
| Cyclomatic Complexity Number | ||
| CCO | Collective Code Ownership | |
| CCP | Camera Control Pro | |
| Conventional Chemical Propulsion | ||
| Cultural Contact Point | ||
| CCR | Condition Code Register | |
| Creedence Clearwater Revival | ||
| CCS | Carbon capture and storage | |
| Carbon Capture Storage | ||
| Center for Cognitive Studies | ||
| Centre for Christian Statesmanship | ||
| CCT | Centrale Crisis Team | |
| CCU | Critical Care Unit | |
| CCV | Citizens for Community Values | |
| CCW | Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons | |
| CDA | Christen Democratisch Appèl | |
| Communications Decency Act | ||
| CDC | Centers for Disease Control | |
| Centre du Don des Corps | ||
| Centre for Disease Control | ||
| Centre for Disease Control and Prevention | ||
| Component Developers Center | ||
| Control Data Corporation | ||
| CDD | Cognitive Dissonance development | |
| Compulsive Drilling Disorder (Bouwfuckers) | ||
| CDE | Chronique De Egypte | |
| Collateral Damage Estimation | ||
| CDF | Channel Definition Format | |
| CDG | Controlled Demolition Group | |
| CDI | CD Interactive | |
| Controlled Demolition Incorporated | ||
| CDK | Chief Dull Knife | |
| CDL | Catholic Defence League | |
| CDM | Capitis Diminutio Maxima | |
| Code-Division Multiplexing | ||
| Conceptual data model | ||
| CDN | Content Delivery Network | |
| CDO | Collateralized Debt Obligation | |
| Conservative Democratic Organisation | ||
| CDP | Celestial Data Processor | |
| Chrome Devtools Protocol | ||
| Climate Disaster Project | ||
| Continuous Data Protection | ||
| CDR | Carbon Dioxide Removal | |
| CDS | Cat Distribution System | |
| Command Disablement System | ||
| CDW | Charles Doolittle Walcott | |
| CEB | Constipated Exoskeleton Bitches | |
| CED | Capacitance Electronic Discs | |
| CEI | Competative Enterprise Institute | |
| Contract End Item | ||
| CEJ | Continuous Employement Justification | |
| CEM | Centrum voor Elektronische Muziek | |
| Creation Evidence Museum | ||
| CEO | Chief Executive Officer | |
| CEP | circular error probable | |
| Competitive Exclusion Principle | ||
| CES | Consumer Electronics Show | |
| Cursus Effectief Studeren | ||
| Curtis Electromusic Specialties | ||
| CET | Central European Time | |
| CFC | Computer Film Company | |
| CFD | Canadian Forces Decoration | |
| Computational Fluid Dynamics | ||
| CFE | Common Farming Exemptions | |
| CFF | Chemins de Fer Féderals | |
| Completely Fat Fucker | ||
| CFG | Context Free Grammar | |
| CFJ | Clogging For Jesus | |
| CFL | Community Fibre London | |
| Courant, Friedrichs and Lewy | ||
| CFM | Constraint Force Mixing | |
| CFO | C form object | |
| CFP | Call For Papers | |
| Canadean Financial Post | ||
| CFR | Case Fatality Rate | |
| Code of Federdal Regulations | ||
| Council on Foreign Relations | ||
| CFS | Chronic Fatigue Syndome | |
| Chronic Fatigue Syndrome | ||
| Commissie Financieel Stelsel | ||
| Commonwealth Fusion System | ||
| Commonwealth Fusion Systems | ||
| CFT | Conformal Field Theory | |
| Council Flat Trash | ||
| Cross Functional Team | ||
| CGA | Casual Games Association | |
| CGE | Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg | |
| CGI | Common Gateway Interface | |
| CriteriumGericht Intervieew | ||
| lobal Commerce Initiative | ||
| CGM | Computer Graphic Metafile | |
| CGN | CentrumGebouw Noord | |
| CGR | Code Geneesmiddelen Reclame | |
| CGS | Cat Girl Synth | |
| Council of Graduate Schools | ||
| CGT | Church Growth Today | |
| CGU | Christelijk Gymnasium Utrecht | |
| CGZ | CentrumGebouw Zuid | |
| CHB | Chicken Hole Base | |
| CHE | Conventional High Explosive | |
| CHL | Configuration History Log | |
| CHM | Computer History Museum | |
| CHR | Cloud Hosted Router | |
| CHS | Central Heating System | |
| CHT | Circle Hough Transform | |
| CHU | Christelijk Historische Unie | |
| Christen Honden Unie | ||
| CHW | Castellum Hoge Woerd | |
| Caucasus Heritage Watch | ||
| CIA | Central Intelligence Agency | |
| CIB | Complaints Investigation Bureau | |
| Cosmic Infrared Background | ||
| Creative Ingenuity Button | ||
| CIC | Combat Information Centre | |
| CID | Continued Instant Dislike | |
| Criminal Investigation Department | ||
| Crying In Disgrace | ||
| CIF | Communication Infrastructure Fund | |
| CIM | Common Information Model | |
| Computer Integrated Manufacturing | ||
| CIO | Chief Information Office | |
| Court of Indian Offences | ||
| CIR | Commissioning Implementing Regulation | |
| CIS | Commonwealth of Independent States | |
| Comprehensive Integration Sollution | ||
| CIT | Case Institute of Technology | |
| contradictio in terminis | ||
| CIU | Central Interpretation Unit | |
| CIW | Communicatie- en Informatiewetenschappen | |
| CJA | Criminal Justice Act | |
| CJB | Communistische Jongerenbeweging | |
| CJD | Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease | |
| CJO | Centraal Joods Overleg | |
| CJP | Committee to Protect Journalists | |
| CKD | Chronic Kidney Disease | |
| CKK | Christenhonden Konten Kusser | |
| CKV | Contact Key Verification | |
| CLA | Carry Look-Ahead | |
| Collegiate Learning Assessment | ||
| Cultural Learning Alliance | ||
| CLI | Command Line Interface | |
| CLN | Corona Locator Nederland | |
| CLO | Community Liasion Officer | |
| CLR | Common Language Runtime | |
| Conscious Logical Reasoning | ||
| CLS | CLear Screen | |
| Cumulative Layout Shift | ||
| CLU | Centrum voor Leermiddelenontwikkeling Utrecht | |
| CLV | Constant Linear Velocity | |
| CLW | Coöperatie Laatste Wil | |
| CLZ | computerleerzalen | |
| CMA | Competition and Markets Authority | |
| Covenant Marriage Act | ||
| CMB | Cosmic Microwave Background | |
| CMD | Cognitive Motor Dissociation | |
| Communication & Multimedia Design | ||
| Communication and Multimedia Design | ||
| Curated Microarray Database | ||
| CME | Coronal Mass Ejection | |
| CMF | Content Management Framework | |
| Cutting Master Format | ||
| CMG | Companion of St Michael and St George | |
| CMI | Centraal Meldpunt Identiteitsfraude | |
| Communicatie, Media & IT | ||
| Computer Musical Instrument | ||
| Condensed Matter and Interfaces | ||
| Contextual Menu Items | ||
| Creation Ministries International | ||
| Cultuur-, Mentaliteits- en Ideeëngeschiedenis | ||
| CMJ | Christopher Martin-Jenkins | |
| CMM | Capability Maturity Model | |
| College of Multi Media | ||
| Consument, Markt & Maatschappij | ||
| CMO | Chief Mouse Officer | |
| Contactorgaan Moslims en Overheid | ||
| CMP | Civiel Medisch Personeel | |
| Command Module Pilot | ||
| Container Managed Persistence | ||
| CMR | Central Monitoring Room | |
| Committee on Mental Retardation | ||
| CMS | Chinese Marathon Syndrome | |
| Citation Management System | ||
| Cold Mammoth System | ||
| Compact Muon Solenoid | ||
| Content Management System | ||
| Content Mismanagement System | ||
| Convention of Migratory Species | ||
| Cryogenic Mammoth System | ||
| CMT | Component Modeling Technology | |
| Crisis Management Team | ||
| CMU | Carnegie Mellon University | |
| CMY | Cyan Magenta Yellow | |
| CNA | Central News Agency | |
| CVE Numbering Authority | ||
| CNC | Christian Nationalist Crusade | |
| Computer Numerical Control | ||
| Computer Numerically Controlled | ||
| CND | Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament | |
| CNF | Chomsky Normal Format | |
| CNH | Computer Nerd Humour | |
| CNM | Centrum Nederlandse Muziek | |
| CNN | Cable News Network | |
| CNO | Cavalerie der Napoleontische Oorlogen | |
| CNP | Canyonlands National Park | |
| Continued Next Post | ||
| Council for National Policy | ||
| CNQ | Certified Not Qualified | |
| CNS | Central Nervous System | |
| CNV | Christelijk Nationaal Vakverbond | |
| COA | Coat Of Arms | |
| COC | Center Of Competence | |
| Chain Of Custody | ||
| Cultureel Ontmoetingscentrum | ||
| COD | Cash On Delivery | |
| Compulsive Oliebol Disorder | ||
| COH | Center Of Hope | |
| COM | China Online Museum | |
| Component Object Model | ||
| COO | Chief Operating Officer | |
| Commissie voor Openbare Onderstand | ||
| COP | Close of Play | |
| COR | Civil Order Regime | |
| Coalition On Revival | ||
| COS | Chief Of Staff | |
| Church of Scientology | ||
| Classification Of Stars | ||
| COT | Chicken Of Tomorrow | |
| COW | Chick-Of-the-Week | |
| COX | cyclo-oxygenase | |
| CPA | Coherent Perfect Absorber | |
| Collaboration Protocol Agreement | ||
| Continuous Partial Attention | ||
| Crimson Permanent Assurance | ||
| CPB | Centraal PlanBureau | |
| CPC | California Penal Code | |
| Chronology Protection Conjecture | ||
| Costs Per Click | ||
| Crisis Pregnancy Center | ||
| CPD | Commission on Presidential Debates | |
| CPF | Cdesign Proponentists Fail | |
| Contract Preparation Forms | ||
| Contractor Protective Forces | ||
| CPH | Crisis Pregnancy Helper | |
| CPI | code page information | |
| ColorLab Processed Image | ||
| Committee on Public Information | ||
| consumer price index | ||
| CPJ | Christelijke Plattelands Jongeren | |
| CPL | Clarion Programming Language | |
| Common Public Licence | ||
| Common Public License | ||
| CPM | Corporate Performance Management | |
| CPN | Communistische Partij Nederland | |
| CPO | Chief Privacy Officer | |
| CPP | Client Puzzle Protocol | |
| CPR | CardioPulmonary Resuscitation | |
| CPS | Certificate Practice Statement | |
| Creative Problem Solving | ||
| Crown Prosecution Service | ||
| CPT | Child Protection Team | |
| Colored People's Time | ||
| CPU | Central Processing Unit | |
| CPV | Coördinatie Platform Vermissing | |
| CRA | Civil Rights Act | |
| Cyber Resilience Act | ||
| CRB | Code Ready Builder | |
| Criminal Records Bureau | ||
| CRC | Chemical Rubber Company | |
| Chipotle Restaurant Chain | ||
| Civil Rights Captcha | ||
| Cyclic Redundancy Checks | ||
| CRD | Capstone Requirements Document | |
| CRF | corticotropin releasing factor | |
| CRG | Classic Regular Grid | |
| CRI | Cranial Rectal Inversion | |
| CRL | Certificate Revocation List | |
| CRM | Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine | |
| Civil Rights Movement | ||
| Coral Ridge Ministries | ||
| Customer Relationship Management | ||
| CRN | Customer Reference Number | |
| CRO | Chief Research Officer | |
| Criminal Records Office | ||
| CRP | Committee for the Re-election of the President | |
| CRS | Colombiaanse Revolutionaire Strijdkrachten | |
| CRT | Cathode Ray Tube | |
| Cranial Remoulding Therapy | ||
| CRU | Climatic Research Unit | |
| CSA | Canadian Space Agency | |
| Canine Separation Anxiety | ||
| Confederate States of America | ||
| CSB | Community Support Brutality | |
| CSC | Centre for Science and Culture | |
| Code Signing Certificates | ||
| Communicatie Service Centrum | ||
| CSD | Circuit Switched Data | |
| Collectieve Sluitings Dag | ||
| Computer Science Department | ||
| CSE | Citizens for a Sound Economy | |
| Creation Science Evangelism | ||
| CSF | Connected Services Framework | |
| CSG | Carrier Strike Group | |
| centimeter seconde gram | ||
| Centrum Seksueel Geweld | ||
| Christelijke ScholenGemeenschap | ||
| CSI | Camera Serial Interface | |
| Crime Scene Investigation | ||
| CSK | Combined Signing Key | |
| CSL | Citation Style Language | |
| Criterion Software Limited | ||
| CSM | Centrale Suiker Maatschappij | |
| Cigarette Smoking Man | ||
| Command and Service Module | ||
| Compatibility Support Module | ||
| CSO | Chief Security Officer | |
| Civil Society Organisation | ||
| Customer service data and outcome | ||
| CSP | Cloud Solutions Provider | |
| Constraint Satisfaction Problems | ||
| Content Security Policy | ||
| Cryptographic Service Provider | ||
| CSQ | Country Specific Quota | |
| CSR | Calgary Stampede Rodeo. | |
| Cyber Security Raad | ||
| CSS | California State Senate | |
| Cascading Style Sheets | ||
| Commission on Safety Standards | ||
| Control Stick Steering | ||
| Customer Self Service | ||
| CSV | comma-separated values | |
| CSY | Chubby Sex Yeti | |
| CTA | Chicago Transit Authority | |
| Construction Time Again | ||
| CTB | Centrum voor Thuisbeademing | |
| Choosing The Best | ||
| Coronatoegangsbewijs | ||
| CTC | Communication Technology Circles | |
| CTD | Church–Turing–Deutsch | |
| Circling The Drain | ||
| CTE | Casia TLA Editor | |
| Common Table Expression | ||
| CTF | Child Trust Fund | |
| CTH | Carole Talon-Hugon | |
| CTI | Cyber Threat Intelligence | |
| CTM | Countdown To Meltdown | |
| CTO | Chief Technical Officer | |
| CTP | Cake Transfer Protocol | |
| CTR | Controlled Traffic Region | |
| Cooperative Threat Reduction | ||
| CTS | Control Transfer Statements | |
| CTU | Counter Terrorist Unit | |
| CUF | Corpse Utilization Factories | |
| CUG | Closed User Group | |
| CUP | Cambridge University Press | |
| Compressed Ultrafast Photography | ||
| CVA | Company Voluntary Arrangement | |
| CVB | Centraal Veevoederbureau | |
| College van Bestuur | ||
| CVC | Card Validation Code | |
| CVD | Chemical Vapour Desposition | |
| Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure | ||
| CVE | Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures | |
| CVL | Centrale Verkeersleiding | |
| College Van Leerlingen | ||
| CVO | Commander of the Royal Victorian Order | |
| Compleet Verspilde Ochtend | ||
| CVS | Chronisch Vermoeidheids Syndroom | |
| Concurrent Versions System | ||
| CVT | Continu Variabele Transmissie | |
| Continuously Variable Transmission | ||
| CVV | Collectief Vraagafhankelijk Vervoer | |
| CWA | Clean Water Act | |
| Concerned Women for America | ||
| CWB | Charles William Beebe | |
| Contra-Wokistische Beweging | ||
| CWC | Centrum voor Wetenschap en Cultuur | |
| Chemical Weapons Convention | ||
| CWG | Common Wealth Games | |
| CWI | Centrum voor Werk en Inkomen | |
| Centrum voor Wiskunde & Informatica | ||
| CWO | Commissie Watersport Opleidingen | |
| CWP | Charles Willson Peale | |
| CWS | Cricket Withdrawl Syndrome | |
| CWT | Complete Waste of Time | |
| CZZ | Complete Zaad Zomer | |
