INR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does INR mean? 

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

1. an agency that is the primary source in the State Department for interpretive analyses of global developments and focal point for policy issues and activities of the Intelligence Community

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• INR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An agency that is the primary source in the State Department for interpretive analyses of global developments and focal point for policy issues and activities of the Intelligence Community

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Bureau of Intelligence and Research; INR

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

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

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

Department of State; DoS; State; State Department; United States Department of State (the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies)

Holonyms ("INR" is a member of...):

IC; Intelligence Community; National Intelligence Community; United States Intelligence Community (a group of government agencies and organizations that carry out intelligence activities for the United States government; headed by the Director of Central Intelligence)

 Context examples 

A system, commonly called the INR, established by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Committee on Thrombosis and Hemostasis for reporting the results of blood coagulation (clotting) tests.

(International Normalized Ratio, NCI Thesaurus)

The International Normalized Ratio of Prothrombin Time (INR) is the ratio of a patient prothrombin time to a normal (control) sample raised to the power of the International Sensitivity Index (ISI) with a range of 0.8 to 1.2 seconds.

(International Normalized Ratio of Prothrombin Time, NCI Thesaurus)