DAF

See also: daf, Daf, DaF, and daF

English

Etymology 1

Noun

DAF (countable and uncountable, plural DAFs)

1. (Incoterm) Acronym of Delivered At Frontier.
2. Acronym of delayed auditory feedback.
3. Acronym of donor-advised fund.

Adjective

DAF (not comparable)

1. (Internet slang, text messaging) Alternative letter-case form of daf (“dumb as fuck”).

Proper noun

DAF

1. Initialism of Dutch Automobile Federation.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French DAF (“Dictionnaire de l’Académie française”).

Proper noun

DAF

1. Acronym of Dictionnaire de l’Académie française.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from German DAF (“Deutsche Arbeitsfront”).

Proper noun

DAF

1. (Nazism, historical) The German Labour Front.
   • 2017 May, Loren Balhorn, “The Lost History of Antifa”, in Jacobin Magazine‎:

     Keen to avoid civil unrest and thus give the Americans a pretext to take it back, French authorities allowed Stuttgart’s antifascists considerable leeway in dismantling the Nazi-era German Labor Front (DAF), rebuilding shop-floor organization in the factories, and organizing the population in cross-party antifascist alliances.

Anagrams

• F.D.A., DFA, ADF, FDA, AfD, fad, FAD, D.F.A.

French

Pronunciation

• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

  (file)

• Audio (France (Massy)):

  (file)

Proper noun

DAF m

1. initialism of Dictionnaire de l'Académie française.

Noun

DAF m or f by sense (plural DAFs)

1. initialism of directeur administratif et financier (“administrative and financial director”).

German

Proper noun

die DAF f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der DAF)

1. (Nazism, historical) initialism of Deutsche Arbeitsfront.