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UNICEF
[ yoo-nuh-sef ]
noun
- United Nations Children's Fund: an agency, created by the United Nations General Assembly in 1946, concerned with improving the health and nutrition of children and mothers throughout the world; Nobel Peace Prize 1965.
UNICEF
/ ˈjuːnɪˌsɛf /
acronym for
- United Nations Children's Fund (formerly, United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund): an agency of the United Nations that administers programmes to aid education and child and maternal health in developing countries
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Word History and Origins
Origin of UNICEF1
U(nited) N(ations) I(nternational) C(hildren's) E(mergency) F(und) (an earlier official name)
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Example Sentences
UNICEF estimates that at least 3,700 children have lost one or both parents to Ebola in the three affected countries.
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Sarah Crowe is the chief of crisis communications for UNICEF, based in New York.
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During August and September, UNICEF had helped 700 children find a parent or extended family or placed a child in foster care.
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She picked up a corner of a cyan-blue UNICEF sticker and stuck it over her mouth.
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WITW: You work with a lot of charities like Born Free Africa, GlobalGiving, and UNICEF.
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