NRI: non-resident Indian

[Mark Mandel]

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which isn't very informative.] Google search for "define:NRI" yielded
8 hits:

 - non-resident Indian (only from
http://india.gov.in/overseas/diaspora/glossary.php)
as well as
 - net revenue interest
 - National Resources Inventory
 - Not Received Item (Credit cards lost/stolen in shipment, usually
the mail, from the issuer to the cardholder)

Google without "define:" shows it in the first ten hits, including the
Wikipedia article "Non-resident Indian and Person of Indian Origin"
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-resident_Indian_and_Person_of_Indian_Origin)

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