IA

1. abbreviationAbbreviation of Iowa: a state of the United States.
2. abbreviationinitialismuncountablegovernmentInitialism of Indian Army.

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   Provided that they [the Indian Army or IA] do their duty, armed insurrection in India would not be an insoluble problem. If however the IA go the other way, the picture would be very different. We do not have the military force to hold India against a widespread guerrilla movement or to reconquer India ... It is doubtful if we could keep the Indian troops loyal. Attlee to Chiefs of Staff, TOP, XI, p.68

   2014, Daniel Marston, The Indian Army and the End of the Raj, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 1

3. IndiaabbreviationinitialismInitialism of Indian Airlines.

   Your home in the sky. In the coming weeks, Indian Airlines (IA) may consider changing its slogan to something more down to earth. For the airline itself may be running for shelter when it announces its results for 2001-2 sometime next month.

   2002, Rohit Saran, “Aviation - Indian Airlines”, in India Today, volume 27, Thomson Living Media India Limited, page 50

4. abbreviationinitialismgovernmentInitialism of Iraqi Army.
5. abbreviationinitialismcomputingInitialism of Intel Architecture.
6. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Ice Age.
7. InternetabbreviationinitialismInitialism of Internet Archive: an American nonprofit digital library website founded in 1996.

1. ArabicEnglishinshallah; God willing

plural IAs

1. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of immediate action, the procedure to determine the cause of a rifle stoppage.
2. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of Institute of Arts.
3. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablecomputingInitialism of information assurance.
4. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablegovernmentInitialism of internal affairs, a department responsible for investigating complaints against police officers.
5. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablegovernmentInitialism of individual augmentee.
6. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablehuman sciencesInitialism of item-and-arrangement.
7. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablegrammarInitialism of internal argument.
8. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablegovernmentInitialism of international affairs.
9. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of industrial action.
10. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of Impact Assessment.
11. PhilippinesabbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableeducationInitialism of industrial arts, one of the strands under the TVL track in senior high school.
12. UKabbreviationcountableinitialismuncountableInitialism of initial accommodation (for immigrants)

1. A surname.