1. A retirement plan that allows you to contribute a limited yearly sum toward your retirement; taxes on the interest earned in the account are deferred
   "She opened an IRA to supplement her employer-sponsored pension";
   - individual retirement account
    
2. A militant organization of Irish nationalists who used terrorism and guerilla warfare in an effort to drive British forces from Northern Ireland and achieve a united independent Ireland
   - Irish Republican Army, Provisional Irish Republican Army, Provisional IRA, Provos

Derived forms: IRAs

Type of: foreign terrorist organisation [Brit], foreign terrorist organization, FTO, pension account, pension plan, retirement account, retirement plan, retirement program, retirement savings account, retirement savings plan, terrorist group, terrorist organisation [Brit], terrorist organization

Encyclopedia: IRA