ARA may refer to:

Media and the arts

  • Artistička Radna Akcija, compilation album released in former Yugoslavia
  • Associate of the Royal Academy, denoting membership in the British Royal Academy of Arts
  • ARA News, an online Arabic and English language news service focussed on Syrian and Kurdish events
  • Ara, is a Catalan daily Spanish newspaper that began publication on 2010

Organizations

  • Academic Research Alliance, an organization created to involve students in scientific activities
  • Alliance for Retired Americans, a senior citizen organization
  • American Relief Administration, a relief mission after World War I
  • Amateur Rowing Association, the governing body of rowing in the United Kingdom, now renamed British Rowing
  • Amateurs Radio Algeriens, the national amateur radio organization of Algeria
  • American Radio Association, a national AFL-CIO affiliated labor union representing U.S. Flag Merchant Marine Licensed Communications and Electronics Officers
  • American Railway Association, precursor to the Association of American Railroads
  • American Rally Association, governing body of rallying and championship in the United States
  • Anti-Racist Action, a network of anti-racist activists
  • Anti-Racist Alliance, a defunct anti-racist organization in the United Kingdom
  • Applied Research Associates, a research and engineering company
  • Arab Rescue Army, a volunteer army during the 1948 Palestine war
  • Arcade and Attica Railroad, a railroad in North Java, New York
  • Archives and Records Association, professional body for UK and Irish archivists, archive conservators and records managers
  • Assets Recovery Agency, a British agency for the recovery of the proceeds of crime
  • Athénée Royal d'Auderghem, a school in Brussels, Belgium
  • Australasian Raptor Association, a special interest group of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union

Military

  • Aerial rocket artillery, helicopter artillery units used by the U.S. Army in the Vietnam War mainly to engage ground targets
  • Armada de la República Argentina, the Argentine Navy (Argentine Navy ships use ARA as a name prefix, just as the US Navy uses USS)
  • Armenian Revolutionary Army, an armed militant group
  • Aryan Republican Army, white nationalist criminal group
  • Australian Regular Army

Government

  • Auckland Regional Authority, a former local government council in New Zealand

Sciences

  • Angiotensin II receptor antagonist, more often called angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB)
  • Aldosterone receptor antagonist (mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist, that is, antimineralocorticoid)
  • Ant-based Routing Algorithm, a wireless mesh network routing protocol; see Swarm intelligence
  • AppleTalk Remote Access, a communications protocol
  • Audio Random Access, an extension to audio plug-in interfaces
  • Arachidonic acid (also AA), as found in breast milk and infant formula
  • The Arrow-Pratt measure of absolute risk aversion
  • Askaryan Radio Array (ARA), a GZK neutrino detector based on the Askaryan effect and will be positioned in the Antarctic ice sheet

Computer science

  • Application release automation

People

  • Amedeo Rocco Armentano (1886–1966), Italian esotericist and musician

Finance

  • Annual Report and Account, the cornerstone of corporate reporting

See also

  • Ara (disambiguation)