See also: Unicef and U.N.I.C.E.F.

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Etymology

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Acronym of its original name, United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund. Now officially United Nations Children's Fund.

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UNICEF

  1. An agency of the United Nations responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide.
    • 1951, “Contributions to the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF)—H. R. 2785”, in Survey of Activities of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Eighty-first Congress (January 3, 1949–January 2, 1951), Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, section I (Strengthening United States Participation in International Organizations), page 16:
      The UNICEF was established in December 1946 by resolution of the United Nations General Assembly. [] To present an adequate picture of the problem which the Committee on Foreign Affairs faced during the Eighty-first Congress in connection with the UNICEF, the background of congressional action in the Eightieth Congress is necessary.

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  • Formerly used with the (i.e., as the UNICEF).

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Japanese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English UNICEF.

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UNICEF(ユニセフ) (Yunisefu

  1. Synonym of 国際連合児童基金 (Kokusai Rengō Jidō Kikin, United Nations Children's Emergency Fund); the UNICEF