IRA

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ira"

English

Pronunciation

• (Irish Republican Army): IPA^(key): /aɪ ɑɹ eɪ/
• (Individual Retirement Account): IPA^(key): /aɪ ɑɹ eɪ/, IPA^(key): [ˈaɪɹə]

Proper noun

IRA

1. (Ireland, UK, politics) Initialism of Irish Republican Army.
2. (Internet, politics) Initialism of Internet Research Agency.
3. (US politics) Initialism of Inflation Reduction Act.
   • 2022 October 5, David Wallace-Wells, “Progressives Should Rally Around a Clean Energy Construction Boom”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     In the September follow-up, those significant gains looked much more contingent. More than 80 percent of the potential emissions reductions from the I.R.A. would be lost, the report concluded, if the country continued to expand the electricity grid at only its recent pace of about 1 percent per year.

Derived terms

(Irish Republican Army):

• Official IRA
• Old IRA
• PIRA
• Provisional IRA
• Real IRA

See also

(Irish Republican Army):

• Provo

Noun

IRA (plural IRAs)

1. (US, finance) Initialism of individual retirement account.
   • 2012 July 31, Walter Updegrave, “'Should I convert my IRA into a Roth?'”, in CNN Money‎^[2]:

     Since you fund a nondeductible IRA with already-taxed dollars, you might figure you wouldn't pay any income taxes on the conversion. But you wouldn't just owe tax on the funds you're converting; you'd also have to take the pretax contributions and gains in all your non-Roth IRAs into account.

   • 2022, Ling Ma, “Tomorrow”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:

     These were the liquefiable assets at hand: a drawerful of family jewelry, a 401(k), an IRA, and a one-bedroom condo purchased with inheritance money after her parents' passing.

Derived terms

(individual retirement account):

• Roth IRA

See also

(individual retirement account):

• 401(k)
• Roth 401(k)
• 403(b)
• RRSP (Canada)

Anagrams

• IAR, air, 'air, AIR, RIA, Ari, ria, rai, ARI, Rai, raï

Spanish

Noun

IRA f (plural IRAs)

1. (medicine) initialism of insuficiencia renal aguda, acute renal failure (ARF)

   Synonym: FRA