Definitions

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  • initialism Interborough Rapid Transit Company
  • initialism In Reference To
  • initialism Investigation and Recovery Team
  • noun The subway lines, collectively, formerly run by that company.

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  • The IRT is a council comprised of national and international corporate leaders that will advise the government on the reform agenda and take the lead in bringing new investments into potential growth sectors of the Tanzanian economy, including tourism, agro-industry, mining, and infrastructure.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2002

  • The X-gateways include a Profinet IO device interface with "IRT" (Isynchronous Real-Time) functionality, an integrated two port real-time switch, Profinet network management and redundancy functionality that conforms to Profinet conformance class C.

    ThomasNet News - Today's New Product News 2010

  • The X-gateways include a Profinet IO device interface with "IRT" (Isynchronous Real-Time) functionality, an integrated two port real-time switch, Profinet network management and redundancy functionality that conforms to Profinet conformance class C.

    ThomasNet News - Today's New Product News ThomasNet News 2010

  • The X-gateways include a Profinet IO device interface with "IRT" (Isynchronous Real-Time) functionality, an integrated two port real-time switch, Profinet network management and redundancy functionality that conforms to Profinet conformance class C.

    ThomasNet News - Today's New Product News ThomasNet News 2010

  • ") The Judgment is in favour of IRT Oil and Gas Limited (" IRT ") and results from legal proceedings related to the early termination of a distributorship agreement between FOX-TEK Canada and IRT dated October 19, 2005.

    unknown title 2009

  • More India Weighing Looser Web Rules IRT: Kapil Sibal on the Future of Telecom Operators also say they are desperate for the government to make more airwaves available.

    India Moves to Revamp Telecom Amol Sharma 2011

  • Ten blocks further North a different story emerged a couple of years ago along Broadway beneath the IRT el, when the nationally known Italian cookie factory, Stella D'Oro, became embroiled in union busting, eventually closing the factory and moving to a non-union shop in Ohio. 1,000 gallant workers who had been there for decades picketed for over a year in rain, heat and sleet, eventually losing.

    Pearl Korn: Small Businesses: The Heart Of Our Communities Pearl Korn 2010

  • Ten blocks further North a different story emerged a couple of years ago along Broadway beneath the IRT el, when the nationally known Italian cookie factory, Stella D'Oro, became embroiled in union busting, eventually closing the factory and moving to a non-union shop in Ohio. 1,000 gallant workers who had been there for decades picketed for over a year in rain, heat and sleet, eventually losing.

    Pearl Korn: Small Businesses: The Heart Of Our Communities Pearl Korn 2010

  • I also believed that my grandfather had his own private entrance into the IRT subway station where we dropped him off at the intersection of Flatbush and Nostrand Avenues in Brooklyn.

    George Heymont: Rolling Down a River, Drowning in Denial George Heymont 2011

  • Kevin Hagen for The Wall Street The New York Transit Museum's antique train near the 167th St. Station in the Bronx, part of a nostalgia ride aboard antique IRT 'Lo-V' cars built between 1916 and 1925.

    New York Photos of the Week: May 23-27 2011

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