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IRA¹

  • /aɪ ɑɹ eɪ/
  • [ˈaɪɹə]

noun IRAs

  1. US, abbreviation, initialism Initialism of individual retirement account 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.

proper noun

  1. Irish, UK, abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Irish Republican Army
  2. Internet, abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Internet Research Agency
  3. US, abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Inflation Reduction Act 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

Ira²

  • /ˈaɪɹə/ US

Rhymes with -aɪɹə

Where it comes from

From a Hebrew name עִירָא ('ira), from a word meaning "watchful".

proper noun

  1. A captain of King David, a minor figure in the Bible mentioned in 2 Samuel 20:26. And Ira also the Jairite was a chief ruler about David.
  2. A male given name from Hebrew, mostly of American usage. So is Ira Gershwin something to do with the more famous George Gershwin? Caroline says. She was his wife, wasn't she? Jen says coming in with plates balanced on her arm. He was his brother, Mark says. It comes into his head how much Faye loved songs. He had quite forgotten how much. It does sound li
  3. An unincorporated community in Jasper County, Iowa.
  4. An unincorporated community in Laclede County, Missouri.
  5. A town in Cayuga County, New York.
  6. An unincorporated community in Scurry County, Texas.
  7. A town in Rutland County, Vermont.

Ira³

  • /ˈirə/

Where it comes from

From the Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian and Czech diminutive of the cognates of Irene.

proper noun

  1. A female given name from the Slavic languages.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: ire, anger, wrath, lra, republican, irish, iia, vrt, sep, irene, era, levin, aris, aii, arf, tra

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"IRA." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/ira. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

IRA. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/ira

Chicago

"IRA." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/ira.

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@misc{ira_2026,
  title = {IRA},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ira},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}