nəˌsɛf 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.
Origin:
U(nited) N(ations) I(nternational) C(hildren's) E(mergency) F(und) (an earlier official name)
U(nited) N(ations) I(nternational) C(hildren's) E(mergency) F(und) (an earlier official name)
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| —n 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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| UNICEF United Nations Children's Fundformerly United Nations Children's Emergency Fund |
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