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Definition: UNICEF |
UNICEFNoun1. An agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Census | (United Nations Children's Fund) Established 1946. An organization that aids governments in efforts to undertake long range programs benefitting children and women. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
UNICEF | English | United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund | Finance, International Organizations |
UNICEF | Finnish | Yhdistyneiden kansakuntien lastenrahasto | Public Administration |
UNICEF | German | Kinderhilfswerk der UN | International Organizations, Social Sciences |
UNICEF | Portuguese | Fundo das NU para a Infância | International Organizations, Social Sciences |
UNICEF | Spanish | Fondo de las Naciones Unidas para la infancia | International Organizations, Social Sciences |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: UNICEFSynonyms: United Nations Children's Fund (n), United Nations International Children's Emergency (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: UNICEF |
| Specialty definitions using "UNICEF": Joint and Cosponsored United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "UNICEF" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (Unicef), German (Unicef), Portuguese (UNICEF, United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | UNICEF working together with WHO in fields such as maternal and child health. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by M. Jacot.. |  | One of the 10,000 victims of the poisoning through mineral oil ... / UNICEF photo. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | The world's children: on a Korean rubbish heap. / UNICEF photo. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | UNICEF emblem of woman holding child. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Building blocks decorated with UNICEF emblem, six children from different countries, and symbols. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Currently, many organizations, including The Global 2000 program of The Carter Center of Emory University, UNICEF, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the World Health Organization (WHO) are helping the last 13 countries in the world (all in Africa) to eradicate the disease. (references) | |
Business | Neither the ILO nor UNICEF believe that there is a significant child labor problem in China. (references) | |
Children's Fund (UNICEF), in 1995 China's mortality rate for children under 5 years of age was 47 per 1,000 live births. (references) | ||
As an adjunct to the July 6 elections, IFE and UNICEF organized in the first children's elections ever held in the country. (references) | ||
Children | Indonesia | An estimated 400,000 children are brought to court annually, according to UNICEF statistics. (references) |
Macedonia | The Office of the Ombudsman contains a special unit for children, partially funded by UNICEF. (references) | |
Indonesia | Throughout the year, UNICEF continued to warn of a "lost generation" of youth as a result of the economic crisis. (references) | |
Economic History | Maldives | The UNDP has a representative resident in Male, as do UNICEF and WHO. (references) |
San Marino | It also cooperates with UNICEF and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, and has official relations with the European Union. (references) | |
Cambodia | The international community responded with a massive relief effort coordinated by the United States through UNICEF and the World Food Program. (references) | |
Human Rights | Maldives | A number of international human rights organizations, such as UNICEF, are present in the country. (references) |
Mauritania | UNICEF, in collaboration with the French organization CARITAS, has been providing increased services, including training and sports in the juvenile detention centers. (references) | |
Paraguay | Amnesty International and UNICEF, along with government officials and diplomatic representatives, have been granted access to prisons on announced and unannounced visits. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Gabon | In July and August, a local NGO conducted a study, funded by UNICEF, of the Bukoya Pygmy population in the northeastern part of the country. (references) |
Political Economy | Sudan | For example, in February SPLA-allied forces reportedly attacked and burned the town of Nyal, looting and damaging the UNICEF compound there. (references) |
Sudan | The Committee and UNICEF jointly sponsored a workshop on abductions in July 1999, during which the Committee recognized abduction as a problem that the Government could and should address. (references) | |
Women | Indonesia | The illiteracy rate among women is 17 percent, compared to 10 percent among men; the national illiteracy rate average for citizens over 15 years old is 12 percent, according to a UNICEF report. (references) |
Sierra Leone | Some estimates, including by UNICEF, of the percentage of women and girls who have undergone the practice range as high as 80 to 90 percent; however, local groups believe that this figure is overstated. (references) | |
Niger | Clitoridectomy was the most common form of FGM. The Government worked closely with a local NGO, UNICEF, and other donors to develop and distribute educational materials at government clinics and maternal health centers. (references) | |
Worker Rights | China | UNICEF trains law enforcement personnel working with trafficking victims. (references) |
Benin | UNICEF also indicated that girls were far more likely to be trafficked than boys. (references) | |
Ecuador | A 2000 UNICEF report estimated that almost half of the children between the ages of 10 and 17 worked. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "UNICEF" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 73.98% of the time. "UNICEF" is used about 123 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 73.98% | 91 | 34,491 |
| Noun (singular) | 14.63% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Noun (common) | 5.69% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.25% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 2.44% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 123 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Ending with "UNICEF": Who-unicef. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
unicef | 965 | es que unicef | 2 |
canada unicef | 14 | history unicef | 2 |
mexico unicef | 7 | chile unicef | 2 |
argentina unicef | 6 | employment unicef | 2 |
job unicef | 5 | in iraq unicef vacancy | 2 |
connery sean unicef | 5 | iraq unicef | 2 |
india unicef | 5 | in israel unicef | 2 |
logo unicef | 5 | investigaciones unicef | 2 |
child right unicef | 5 | unicef usa | 2 |
unicef vacancy | 4 | project unicef | 2 |
fund unicef us | 4 | bruce harris unicef | 2 |
intranet unicef | 4 | es la que unicef | 2 |
moore roger unicef | 4 | philippine unicef | 2 |
audrey hepburn unicef | 4 | picture unicef | 2 |
org unicef | 3 | en español unicef | 2 |
colombia unicef | 3 | unicef card | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "UNICEF"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | UNICEF(United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund) (United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund), UNICEF, FN's Børnefond (United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | UNICEF(United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund) (United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund), UNICEF, Kinderfonds van de Verenigde Naties (United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | UNICEF, Yhdistyneiden kansakuntien lastenrahasto. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | UNICEF,Fonds des Nations unies pour l'enfance (United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund), UNICEF,FISE, Unicef, Fonds International des Nations Unies pour le Secours l'Enfance (United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund), Fonds international de secours l'enfance (United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund), FISE (United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | UNICEF (United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | UNICEF. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | UNICEF (United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund), Fondo delle NU per l'infanzia (United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ユダヤ暦 (Jewish calendar, small prefabricated kitchen in an apartment, unicorn, union, Union Jack, unique, unisex, unison, Unisys, unit, unit control, unit dress, unit load, unit pricing, unit stock control, unit system, unitard, united, United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, Unix). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ユニセフ (United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | icefunay UNICEF (United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund), Fundo das NU para a Infância (United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund). (various references) юнисеф. (various references) UNICEF (United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund), Fondo de las Naciones Unidas para la infancia (United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund). (various references) UNICEF. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-f-i-n-u" | |
-2 letters: cine, cuif, fice, fine, fuci, neif, nice, unci. | |
-3 letters: cue, ecu, fen, feu, fie, fin, fun, ice. | |
-4 letters: ef, en, if, in, ne, nu, un. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-f-i-n-u" | |
+1 letter: funicle, uniface. | |
+2 letters: fuchsine, funicles, infecund, unifaces. | |
+3 letters: configure, confiture, cuneiform, fecundity, fettucine, fettucini, flouncier, fluencies, fuchsines, fungicide, influence, luciferin, unfencing. | |
+4 letters: centrifuge, cinquefoil, configured, configures, confitures, coniferous, cuneiforms, defocusing, fettuccine, fettuccini, flounciest, fricandeau, functioned, fungicides, infectious, influenced, influences, luciferins, munificent, refocusing, sufficient, uncodified, uncoffined, unconfined, uninfected, unmerciful, unspecific. | |
+5 letters: affluencies, bullfinches, centrifugal, centrifuged, centrifuges, cinquefoils, cofeaturing, confutative, counterfeit, counterfire, counterfoil, countrified, countryfied, defocussing, farinaceous, fecundating, fecundation, fecundities, fluorescein, fluorescing, frequencies, fricandeaus, fricandeaux, ineffectual, influencing, infrequence, infrequency, microfaunae, munificence, prefocusing, reconfigure, refocussing, resurfacing, rubefacient, scruffiness, sufficiency, superinfect, tumefaction, unaffecting, uncalcified, uncertified, unclarified, unconfirmed, uninflected, unspecified. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 4E 49 43 45 46 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. .. -.-. . ..-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01001110 01001001 01000011 01000101 01000110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U N I C E F |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 004E 0049 0043 0045 0046 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)554843373940 |
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