national rifle association

1. 1.

   a powerful lobby that advocates the right to own and bear arms and rejects any gun regulation by the government

   SynonymsNRA

   Broaderspecial interest

Questions about national rifle association

What does national rifle association mean?

national rifle association means "a powerful lobby that advocates the right to own and bear arms and rejects any gun regulation by the government".

What is another word for national rifle association?

Close synonyms include NRA. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is national rifle association a common word?

national rifle association is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.