IRA

plural IRAs

1. USabbreviationinitialismbusinessInitialism of individual retirement account.

   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.

   2022, Ling Ma, “Tomorrow”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN

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   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.

   2012 July 31, Walter Updegrave, “'Should I convert my IRA into a Roth?'”, in CNN Money, archived from the original on 31 Jan 2023

1. IrishUKabbreviationinitialismgovernmentInitialism of Irish Republican Army.
2. InternetabbreviationinitialismgovernmentInitialism of Internet Research Agency.
3. USabbreviationinitialismgovernmentInitialism of Inflation Reduction Act.

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   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.

   2022 October 5, David Wallace-Wells, “Progressives Should Rally Around a Clean Energy Construction Boom”, in The New York Times

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.

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   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 like a girl's name, though, doesn't it? Caroline is saying. There's no way I'd ever call a daughter that, Hannah says.

   2011, Ali Smith, There but for the, Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN, pages 140–141

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.

1. A female given name from the Slavic languages.