- (in the US) individual retirement account
- Irish Republican Army
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026
IRA or I.R.A./ˈaɪˈɑrˈeɪ; for 1. also ˈaɪrə/USA pronunciation
an abbreviation of:
- Business, Governmentindividual retirement account.
- Irish Republican Army.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
IRA abbreviation for
I•ra
(ī′rə),USA pronunciation n.
IRA,
- a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning "watchful.''
IRA,
- Business, GovernmentSee individual retirement account.
- Government, MilitarySee Irish Republican Army.
'IRA' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Childers
- her
- irascible
- ire
- Irish Republican Army
- Mountbatten
- Provisional
- Sankey
- Sinn Féin
- Stepford
- Aldridge
- ça ira
- Gershwin
- hiragana
- individual retirement account
- iracund
- Iranian Plateau
- Iraqi
- Porgy and Bess
- pro-Iranian
- pro-Iraqi
- pseudo-Iranian
- Remsen
- trans-Iranian
- Roth IRA
- semirationalized
- SEP