IRA

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ira"

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aɪ ɑɹ eɪ/
• (noun sense 1): IPA^(key): /aɪ ɑɹ eɪ/, [ˈaɪɹə]

Noun

IRA (plural IRAs)

2. (US, finance) Initialism of individual retirement account.
   • 2012 July 31, Walter Updegrave, “'Should I convert my IRA into a Roth?'”, in CNN Money‎^[1], archived from the original on 31 January 2023:

     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

• Roth IRA

Proper noun

IRA

1. (Irish politics, 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^[2], archived from the original on 17 February 2026:

     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

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

See also

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

Anagrams

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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈi.ɾɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈi.ɾɐ/

• Homophone: ira

Proper noun

IRA f (plural IRAs)

1. (Irish politics, UK politics) IRA (“Irish Republican Army”)

Noun

IRA f (plural IRAs)

1. (pathology) abbreviation of insuficiência renal aguda (“acute renal failure”): ARF

Spanish

Noun

IRA f (plural IRAs)

1. (pathology) initialism of insuficiencia renal aguda (“acute renal failure”): ARF

   Synonym: FRA