IRS (irs)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: irs   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does IRS mean? 

• IRS (noun)
  The noun IRS has 1 sense:

1. the bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections

  Familiarity information: IRS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IRS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The bureau of the Treasury Department responsible for tax collections

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Internal Revenue Service; IRS

Hypernyms ("IRS" is a kind of...):

agency; authority; bureau; federal agency; government agency; office (an administrative unit of government)

Holonyms ("IRS" is a part of...):

Department of the Treasury; Treasury; Treasury Department; United States Treasury (the federal department that collects revenue and administers federal finances; the Treasury Department was created in 1789)

 Context examples 

INSRR phosphorylates insulin receptor substrates IRS-1 and IRS-2.

(Insulin Receptor-Related Receptor, NCI Thesaurus)

Insulin binding to its receptor results in the tyrosine phosphorylation of insulin receptor substrates (IRS) by the insulin receptor tyrosine kinase (INSR).

(Insulin/Insulin Receptor Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

Phosphorylation of IRS-1 and PI3 kinase activation are also involved in IGF-1 signaling, similar to insulin signaling.

(IGF-1 Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

This gene is involved in tyrosine-kinase signal transduction that elicits signaling events in the Jak/Stat and IRS pathways.

(IFNAR2 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

The hottest, most massive of these stars, W40 IRS 1a, lies near the center of the star cluster.

('Space Butterfly' Is Home to Hundreds of Baby Stars, NASA)

The activity of JAK2 mediates many of the downstream responses to growth hormone through phosphorylation of STAT transcription factors, MAP kinases, other kinase cascades and molecules involved in metabolism like IRS-1.

(Growth Hormone Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

An offshore company in which a U.S. person owns 10 percent or more of a foreign corporation or in which 50 percent or more of the total voting stock is owned by U.S. shareholders collectively or 10 percent or more of the voting control is owned by U.S. persons which is treated by the IRS as a U.S. tax reporting entity.

(Controlled Foreign Corporation, NCI Thesaurus)

This allows association of IRSs with the regulatory subunit of phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K).

(Insulin/Insulin Receptor Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)