UNICEF
[ yoo-nuh-sef ]
/ ˈyu 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 of UNICEF
U(nited)
N(ations)
I(nternational)
C(hildren's)
E(mergency)
F(und) (an earlier official name)
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UNICEF
/ (ˈjuːnɪˌsɛf) /
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