What is “AA”?
AA stands for Association agricole (French), a cooperative used primarily in Luxembourg. The suffix signals that the business has limited liability and is privately held.
Full meaning & translation
The full form is Association agricole, a French-language term. It translates literally as “Agricultural association.” You may also encounter it abbreviated or written as association agricole.
Where it's used
AA appears in company names registered in the following jurisdiction:
What it tells you about the company
Equivalent forms around the world
These are the closest structural equivalents to AA in other jurisdictions — same entity category, different national law.
Normalizing “AA” in your data
When matching or deduplicating company records, the legal suffix is noise — “Acme AA” and “Acme” should resolve to the same entity. One API call strips it and returns a stable canonical form:
curl -X POST https://api.ambect.com/v1/normalize/company \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $AMBECT_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"name": "Acme AA", "country": "lu"}'{
"data": {
"canonical": "acme aa",
"legal_type": null,
"tokens": [
"acme",
"aa"
]
},
"meta": {
"pipeline": [
"lowercase",
"legal_suffix"
],
"confidence": 0.99
}
}Frequently asked questions
What does AA stand for?
AA stands for Association agricole (French), which translates as "Agricultural association".
Is a AA public or private?
A AA is a private entity — its shares are not publicly listed or traded on a stock exchange.
What is the liability in a AA?
Owners of a AA have limited liability. Their personal assets are protected, and their exposure is capped at the amount they invested.
Which countries use AA?
AA is used in Luxembourg.
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