| Acronym | Definition |
|---|
| PLA | Paola (postal locality, Malta) |
| PLA | People's Liberation Army (China) |
| PLA | Polylactic Acid |
| PLA | Plucked from the Air (budgeting method) |
| PLA | Permanent Loan Agreement |
| PLA | Property Lease Agreement |
| PLA | Prior Learning Assessment |
| PLA | Plasminogen Activator |
| PLA | Public Library Association |
| PLA | Programmable Logic Array |
| PLA | Patent License Agreement |
| PLA | Pre-school Learning Alliance (London, UK) |
| PLA | Professional Labor Assistant |
| PLA | Port of London Authority |
| PLA | Pelvic Lymphadenectomy |
| PLA | Palestine Liberation Army |
| PLA | Participatory Learning and Action |
| PLA | Parasternal Long-Axis |
| PLA | Premises Liability Act (law; various locations) |
| PLA | Product Listing Ads (marketing) |
| PLA | Professional Landscape Architect |
| PLA | Personal Loan Agreement |
| PLA | Paya Lebar Air Base |
| PLA | Project Labor Agreements |
| PLA | American Plaice (Hippoglossoides platessoides) |
| PLA | Principal Leadership Academy (various locations) |
| PLA | Payday Loan Act |
| PLA | Pennsylvania Library Association |
| PLA | Pakistan Library Association |
| PLA | Purchase and License Agreement |
| PLA | Program License Agreement |
| PLA | Product License Application |
| PLA | Performance Logs and Alerts |
| PLA | Parallel Linker Advance |
| PLA | Provincial Liberal Association (Ontario, Canada) |
| PLA | Property Law Act (various locations) |
| PLA | Public Land Acquisition |
| PLA | Principal's Leadership Award |
| PLA | Public Lands Act (Canada) |
| PLA | Product License Application (FDA) |
| PLA | Parachute Landing Area |
| PLA | PhpLdapAdmin (PHP tool for LDAP Server Administration) |
| PLA | Phone Losers of America |
| PLA | Project Leadership Associates (various locations) |
| PLA | Paperless Lab Academy |
| PLA | Pure Love Alliance |
| PLA | Provincial Licensing Authority (South Africa) |
| PLA | Prêt Locatif Aidé (French: Assisted Rental Loans) |
| PLA | Proliteracy America (education) |
| PLA | Petroleum Licensing Authority (UK) |
| PLA | Passenger's Luggage in Advance |
| PLA | Predatory Lending Association |
| PLA | Pipleine Loss Allowance (transportation costs; various locations) |
| PLA | Public Library Authority (various locations) |
| PLA | Pierce Leahy Archives |
| PLA | Philip Lawrence Awards (UK) |
| PLA | Plain Language Address |
| PLA | Participatory Learning Approach (pedagogy) |
| PLA | Pull Accumulator from Stack (6502 processor instruction) |
| PLA | Portland Leather Alliance |
| PLA | Performance Level Assessment |
| PLA | Practice Low Approach (FAA) |
| PLA | Partial Look-Ahead |
| PLA | Participatory Learning Appraisal |
| PLA | Parachute Location Aid |
| PLA | Purchased Life Annuity |
| PLA | Power Level Angle |
| PLA | Professional Loadmaster Association |
| PLA | Pacific Legal Advisory (Bangkok & Thailand law firm) |
| PLA | Pool Leagues of America |
| PLA | Partido Liberal Andaluz |
| PLA | Procurement Liaison Auditor (Defense Contract Audit Agency) |
| PLA | Planar Loop Antenna (wideband antenna) |
| PLA | Pathology Laboratory Associates, Inc (Tulsa, OK) |
| PLA | Power Level Actuator |
| PLA | Proactive Logistics Assessment |
| PLA | Probabilistic Luck Assessment |
| PLA | Planned Labor Application |
| PLA | Power Lever Angle Actuator |
| PLA | Pylon Loading Adapter |
| PLA | Pensacola Lighthouse Association (Florida, USA) |
| PLA | Power-Loading Agreement (coal mining; UK) |
| PLA | Please Leave Alone |