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NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION

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Dictionary entry overview: What does National Rifle Association mean?

• NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION (noun)
The noun NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION 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: NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION (noun)

Sense 1

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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 ("National Rifle Association" is a kind of...):

lobby; pressure group; third house (a group of people who try actively to influence legislation)

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