Dictionary

IA en · INTJ

Meanings

1. (Arabic, English) inshallah; God willing

IA en · NOUN

Meanings

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

Forms

Synonyms

IAB · IAD

IA en · PROPN

Meanings

1. (abbreviation, alt-of) Abbreviation of Iowa: a state of the United States.
   alt of Iowa
2. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of Indian Army.
   alt of Indian Army
   • 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. (India, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of Indian Airlines.
   alt 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. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of Iraqi Army.
   alt of Iraqi Army
5. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of Intel Architecture.
   alt of Intel Architecture
6. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of Ice Age.
   alt of Ice Age
7. (Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of Internet Archive: an American nonprofit digital library website founded in 1996.
   alt of Internet Archive

Deriveds

IA-32 · IA-64

Relateds

Indian Army at the Encyclopedia of India · Indian Airlines at the Encyclopædia Britannica