What is “RA”?
RA stands for Regie autonomă (Romanian), a nonprofit organization used primarily in Romania. The suffix signals that the business has limited liability and is privately held.
Full meaning & translation
The full form is Regie autonomă, a Romanian-language term. It translates literally as “autonomous public utility enterprise.” You may also encounter it abbreviated or written as regie autonoma.
Where it's used
RA appears in company names registered in the following jurisdiction:
What it tells you about the company
Equivalent forms around the world
These are the closest structural equivalents to RA in other jurisdictions — same entity category, different national law.
Normalizing “RA” in your data
When matching or deduplicating company records, the legal suffix is noise — “Acme RA” and “Acme” should resolve to the same entity. One API call strips it and returns a stable canonical form:
curl -X POST https://api.ambect.com/v1/normalize/company \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $AMBECT_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"name": "Acme RA", "country": "ro"}'{
"data": {
"canonical": "acme ra",
"legal_type": null,
"tokens": [
"acme",
"ra"
]
},
"meta": {
"pipeline": [
"lowercase",
"legal_suffix"
],
"confidence": 0.99
}
}Frequently asked questions
What does RA stand for?
RA stands for Regie autonomă (Romanian), which translates as "autonomous public utility enterprise".
Is a RA public or private?
A RA is a private entity — its shares are not publicly listed or traded on a stock exchange.
What is the liability in a RA?
Owners of a RA have limited liability. Their personal assets are protected, and their exposure is capped at the amount they invested.
Which countries use RA?
RA is used in Romania.
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