IMF

Translingual

Symbol

IMF

1. (international standards, aviation) IATA airport code for Imphal International Airport, which serves Imphal, Manipur, India.

English

Proper noun

IMF

1. (UN) Initialism of International Monetary Fund.
   • 1997, “Electioneering”, in OK Computer, performed by Radiohead:

     Your turn, your turn / It's just business, cattle prods and the IMF

   • 2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, pages 194–195:

     Now I tried to make amends, small talk, but he was busy with a huge sheaf of papers, on which I spotted graphs I couldn’t follow, sets of statistics from the IMF.

   • 2022 October 11, Julia Horowitz, “‘The worst is yet to come’: IMF issues stark recession warning”, in CNN Business‎^[1], archived from the original on 5 August 2025:

     The prospects for the global economy as outlined by the IMF are the third weakest since 2001, behind only the 2008 financial crisis and the worst phase of the coronavirus pandemic. Global growth has fallen below 2% just five times since 1970.

   • 2022 November 22, Hanna Ziady, “If the world avoids a recession, it’ll have India and China to thank”, in CNN Business‎^[2], archived from the original on 8 May 2025:

     The OECD expects inflation to remain above 9% this year among advanced economies. It’s then forecast to fall back to 6.6% in 2023, slightly above levels forecast by the IMF.

2. (fiction) Initialism of Impossible Mission Force, a fictional spy organization from the Mission: Impossible franchise.
   • 2018, Deborah Cornelious, “‘Mission: Impossible - Fallout’ review: mission successful”, in The Hindu‎^[3], archived from the original on 7 December 2022:

     Since 1996 and over six installments, special IMF (The Impossible Missions Force) agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) has been spectacularly ‘figuring things right in the face of danger, often without a plan.

Translations

International Monetary Fund

• Armenian: ԱՄՀ (hy) (AMH)
• Catalan: FMI m
• Czech: MMF (cs)
• Dutch: IMF (nl) n
• French: FMI (fr) m
• Galician: FMI (gl) m
• German: IWF (de) m
• Greek: ΔΝΤ (el) n (DNT)
• Italian: FMI m
• Lithuanian: TVF
• Macedonian: ММФ (mk) (MMF)
• Polish: MFW (pl) n
• Portuguese: FMI (pt) m
• Romanian: FMI n
• Russian: МВФ (ru) m (MVF)
• Spanish: FMI (es) m
• Swedish: IMF, IVF
• Xibe: ᠠᡞ
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  ᠠᡞᡫᡝ (ai aim aife)

Anagrams

• FIM, MFI, MIF

Dutch

Etymology

Abbreviation of Internationaal Monetair Fonds.

Pronunciation

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Noun

IMF n (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. IMF

Japanese

Etymology

Borrowed from English IMF.

Proper noun

IMF(アイエムエフ) • (Aiemuefu) 

1. synonym of 国際通貨基金 (Kokusai Tsūka Kikin, “International Monetary Fund”); the IMF