Para, or PARA, may refer to:
Businesses, professions, and organizations
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Paramount Global
Paramount Global (Trade name, d/b/a Paramount) is an American multinational mass media and entertainment Conglomerate (company), conglomerate controlled by National Amusements and Headquarters, headquartered at One Astor Plaza in Times Square, ...
, traded as PARA on the Nasdaq stock exchange
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Para Group, the former name of CT Corp
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Para Rubber, now Skellerup, a New Zealand manufacturer
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Para USA, formerly Para-Ordnance, a firearms manufacturer
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Pan American Rugby Association
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Philippine Amateur Radio Association
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Paraprofessional
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Paralegal
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Paramilitary
A paramilitary is a military that is not a part of a country's official or legitimate armed forces. The Oxford English Dictionary traces the use of the term "paramilitary" as far back as 1934.
Overview
Though a paramilitary is, by definiti ...
, organisations not part of the armed forces but operate as such
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Paramedic
A paramedic is a healthcare professional trained in the medical model, whose main role has historically been to respond to emergency calls for medical help outside of a hospital. Paramedics work as part of the emergency medical services (EMS), ...
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Parapsychology, the study of alleged psychic phenomena
People
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Pará (footballer, born 1986), Marcos Rogério Ricci Lopes
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Pará (footballer, born 1987), Erinaldo Rabelo Santos
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Pará (footballer, born 1995), Anderson Ferreira da Silva
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Pará (footballer, born 2002), Luis Felipe Rabelo Costa
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André Cordeiro (water polo) (born 1967), nicknamed Pará, Brazilian water polo player
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Para Draine (born 1972), American female boxer
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Begum Para (1926–2008), Indian film actress
Places
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Para (Bengali), a Bengali word meaning neighborhood or locality
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Pará
Pará () is a Federative units of Brazil, state of Brazil, located in northern Brazil and traversed by the lower Amazon River. It borders the Brazilian states of Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins (state), Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Amazonas (Brazilian st ...
, a state of Brazil
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Para (community development block), Purulia district, West Bengal, India
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Para, Purulia
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Para (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
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Para, Jhabua, Madhya Pradesh, India
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Para, Rajasthan, India
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Para, Unnao, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Para, Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Para, Ivory Coast
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Para District, Suriname
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Para River (disambiguation)
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La Para, a summit in the Swiss Alps
Science and technology
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Parity (biology), the number of times a woman has given birth, e.g. para 1 etc.
* Para, common name of fern ''
Ptisana salicina''
* para, symbol for the fruit fly gene ''
paralytic (gene)''
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Para- (chemistry), a position of a substituent on a cyclic hydrocarbon
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Para red, a dye
Special forces
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Para Commando Brigade (Bangladesh), special forces of the
Bangladeshi Army
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Para (Special Forces), special forces of the
Indian Army
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Parachute Regiment (United Kingdom), elite infantry of the
British Army
The British Army is the principal Army, land warfare force of the United Kingdom. the British Army comprises 73,847 regular full-time personnel, 4,127 Brigade of Gurkhas, Gurkhas, 25,742 Army Reserve (United Kingdom), volunteer reserve perso ...
, known as The Paras
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Paratrooper, a military parachutist
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Para Commandos (disambiguation), a paratrooper and commando
Other uses
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Para (currency), a former currency of the Ottoman Empire
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Para language, an unclassified Naga language of India and Burma
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Para Handy, a fictional character in the ''Glasgow Evening News''
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Para Shakti, a Hindu goddess of the Shakti type sometimes concatenated Parashakti
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Brazilian ship ''Pará'', a list of ships
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Juz', or para, a division of the Quran
See also
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Paras (disambiguation)
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Param (disambiguation)
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List of commonly used taxonomic affixes
This is a list of common affixes used when scientifically naming species, particularly extinct species for whom only their scientific names are used, along with their derivations.
*a-, an-: ''Pronunciation'': /ə/, /a/, /ən/, /an/. ''Origin ...
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Para Para, a popular Japanese solo dance
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''Paara'' (film), a 1985 Indian film
*"Paaraa", a song from the 2024 Indian film ''
Indian 2''
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Parachute Regiment (disambiguation)
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Paralympic Games
The Paralympic Games or Paralympics is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of disability, disabilities. There are Winter Paralympic Games, Winter and Summer Paralympic Games, which since the 1988 ...
, international games for athletes with a disability
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