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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.

Origin:
U(nited) N(ations) I(nternational) C(hildren's) E(mergency) F(und) (an earlier official name)
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UNICEF   (yōō'nĭ-sěf')   
abbr.  United Nations Children's Fund (formerly United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund)
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Abbreviations & Acronyms
UNICEF
United Nations Children's Fundformerly United Nations Children's Emergency Fund
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