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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation individual retirement account
  • abbreviation Irish Republican Army

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Acronym The Irish Republican Army, a group in Ireland with the primary goal of promoting the unification of Ireland and the severing of the political bond of Northern Ireland with Great Britain, of mostly secret membership, with a militant wing sponsoring terrorist activities such as bombings and the killings of police, British soldiers, and Unionist sympathizers in Northern Ireland.
  • noun (Finance), U.S., acronym individual retirement account; -- a special type of savings account allowed by law to provide deferred taxation of the interest paid.

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  • initialism Irish Republican Army
  • initialism US Individual Retirement Account
  • initialism Investment Recovery Association

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