IMF en · PROPN
Meanings
-
(abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, qualifier:UN) Initialism of International Monetary Fund.
alt of International Monetary Fund
Your turn, your turn / It's just business, cattle prods and the IMF
1997, “Electioneering”, in OK Computer, performed by Radiohead:The prospects for the global economy as outlined by the IMF are the third weakest since 2001, behind only the 2008 financial crisis and the worst phase of the coronavirus pandemic. Global growth has fallen below 2% just five times since 1970.
2022 October 11, Julia Horowitz, “‘The worst is yet to come’: IMF issues stark recession warning”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2025:The OECD expects inflation to remain above 9% this year among advanced economies. It’s then forecast to fall back to 6.6% in 2023, slightly above levels forecast by the IMF.
2022 November 22, Hanna Ziady, “If the world avoids a recession, it’ll have India and China to thank”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 08 May 2025:Now I tried to make amends, small talk, but he was busy with a huge sheaf of papers, on which I spotted graphs I couldn’t follow, sets of statistics from the IMF.
2016, Zadie Smith, Swing Time, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, pages 194–195:
-
(abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of Impossible Mission Force, a fictional spy organization from the Mission: Impossible franchise.
alt of Impossible Mission Force
Since 1996 and over six installments, special IMF (The Impossible Missions Force) agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) has been spectacularly ‘figuring things right in the face of danger, often without a plan.
2018, Deborah Cornelious, “‘Mission: Impossible - Fallout’ review: mission successful”, in The Hindu, archived from the original on 07 Dec 2022:
Translations (19)
ru МВФ (International Monetary Fund) · nl IMF (International Monetary Fund) · hy ԱՄՀ (International Monetary Fund) · pt FMI (International Monetary Fund) · sjo ᠠᡞ ᠠᡞᠮ ᠠᡞᡫᡝ (International Monetary Fund) · lt TVF (International Monetary Fund) · ro FMI (International Monetary Fund) · cs MMF (International Monetary Fund) · it FMI (International Monetary Fund) · mk ММФ (International Monetary Fund) · sv IVF (International Monetary Fund) · de IWF (International Monetary Fund) · el ΔΝΤ (International Monetary Fund) · ca FMI (International Monetary Fund) · pl MFW (International Monetary Fund) · es FMI (International Monetary Fund) · gl FMI (International Monetary Fund) · sv IMF (International Monetary Fund) · fr FMI (International Monetary Fund)