provisional ira

Questions about provisional ira

What does provisional ira mean?

provisional ira means "a militant organization of Irish nationalists who used terrorism and guerilla warfare in an effort to drive British forces from Northern Ireland and achieve a united independent Ireland".

What is another word for provisional ira?

Close synonyms include Irish Republican Army, IRA, Provisional Irish Republican Army, Provos. 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 provisional ira a common word?

provisional ira 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.