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Meaning of HBA | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

  1. Abbreviation of health-and-beauty aid.
  2. Initialism of honour-based abuse.

Examples

“We have in Miami approx 110,000 to 120,000 units of the best known brand of HBA products we have NEUTROGENA ... at $0.12 & $0.20 per unit FACIAL BARS (soaps) .... approx 31,000 PcS”
“I get a lot of HBA stuff like shampoo and cosmetics where the formulation or even just the packaging has been changed.”
“That book, first conceived in 2007, had the principal aim of highlighting women's victimisation across the world in the name of so-called honour, and we wanted to highlight that HBA is not purely an Islamic phenomenon.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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