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NRA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does NRA mean?
• NRA (noun)
The noun NRA has 1 sense:
1. a powerful lobby that advocates the right to own and bear arms and rejects any gun regulation by the government
Familiarity information: NRA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A powerful lobby that advocates the right to own and bear arms and rejects any gun regulation by the government
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
National Rifle Association; NRA
Hypernyms ("NRA" is a kind of...):
advocacy group; lobby; lobby group; pressure group; special-interest group; special interest; special interest group; third house (an interest group that tries to influence legislators or bureaucrats to act in their favor, typically through lobbying)
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