EPA

See also: Appendix:Variations of "epa"

English

Proper noun

EPA

1. (US) Initialism of Environmental Protection Agency.
   • 2014 November 13, Ross Douthat, “A Test For Climate Hawks”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     First the U.S. had to “show leadership” by promising to cut emissions, many self-styled climate hawks had argued during the debates over cap and trade and the president’s E.P.A. regulations, because then and only then the world’s developing economies would be pressured/shamed/persuaded into following along.

   • 2021 November 2, Lylla Younes, Ava Kofman, Al Shaw and Lisa Song, “Poison in the Air”, in ProPublica‎^[2]:

     The EPA collects emissions data from more than 20,000 industrial facilities across the country and has even developed its own state-of-the-art tool — the Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators model — to estimate the impact of toxic emissions on human health.

Noun

EPA (plural EPAs)

1. (organic chemistry) Initialism of eicosapentaenoic acid.
2. Initialism of English pale ale.

   Coordinate terms: APA, IPA

   • 2014 February 14, Adam Cowden, “The Man Who Invented Beer: Three Floyds Pride and Joy”, in HEAVE Media:

     I’ve noticed that the chief distinguishing factor between American pale ales and their English counterparts is the hop taste — APAs all seem to finish with a metallic, grapefruit, or pine bitterness (it differs depending on who you talk to), while EPAs mostly seem to finish with a leafy, earthy hop profile that’s less explicitly bitter.

   • 2014, Lew Bryson, Don Cazentre, New York Breweries, →ISBN:

     Beers brewed: CB's branded beers include Caged Alpha Monkey, Canandaigua Lake Pale Ale, EPA (English Pale Ale), Double Dark Cream Porter, and many seasonals and oneoff beers.

   • 2015 April 8, Bianca Coleman, “Craft beers go down with great ease”, in Independent Online:

     We had a bonus taster of an EPA, or English Pale Ale (IPA is Indian Pale Ale), which went by the name Rhythm Stick, and according my notes was delicious, and full of peachy aromas.

   • 2017 June 30, Wayne Newton, “Canada’s theatre jewel has tasty choices for food and drink to rival Stratford’s onstage offerings”, in London Free Press:

     It’s the Black Swan EPA which is the brewery’s best seller and the one most frequently found in local restaurants.

   • 2017 November 17, Nick Harman, “The Unbeatable Barley of Holkham”, in Foodepedia:

     I'm a bit twitchy myself, thirsting for some more Marston's, so we crack some bottles of Marston's EPA (English Pale Ale) a light, citrusy, beer that's very refreshing, although perhaps not best drunk in the freezing dusk wind that's now storming inland.

3. (countable, law, England and Wales) Initialism of enduring power of attorney.

   Coordinate term: LPA

Anagrams

• Pea, APE, Pae, ape, EAP, PAE, PEA, pea

Swedish

Etymology 1

An EPA store from the 1950s.

An EPA-traktor made from a Volvo Duett.

Acronym of Enhetsprisaktiebolaget (“The uniform price stock company”). The vehicles got their name in comparison to the department stores' wares: for being cheap and of low quality.

Proper noun

EPA c (genitive EPA:s)

1. A chain of low-price (and sometimes low-quality) department stores that existed between 1930 and 1978.

Derived terms

• EPA-traktor (“a vehicle class”)

Noun

EPA c

1. (colloquial) Short for EPA-traktor.
2. (nonstandard) Synonym of A-traktor

Alternative forms

• epa

Derived terms

• EPA-dunk (“a music genre”)
• EPA-raggare (“a subculture”)

Etymology 2

An EPA (ESD protected area).

Borrowed from English EPA, acronym of ESD protected area.

Noun

EPA n

1. ESD protected area

   Synonym: ESD-skyddat område

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English EPA, acronym of eicosapentaenoic acid.

Noun

EPA c

1. eicosapentaenoic acid

   Synonym: eikosapentaensyra

References

• EPA in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• EPA in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)