united nations international childrens emergency fund

Found 5 definition: united nations, international, children, emergency, fund.

Pos: Noun Phrase

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Noun united nations has 1 senses

united nations(n = noun.group) un - an organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security;
is a kind of global organization, international organisation, international organization, world organisation, world organization

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Pos: Adjective, Noun

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Noun international has 1 senses

international(n = noun.group) - any of several international socialist organizations;
is a kind of socialism, socialist economy

Adjective international has 2 senses

1. international(a = adj.all) - concerning or belonging to all or at least two or more nations; "international affairs"; "an international agreement"; "international waters"
Antonym: national
Derived form noun internationality₁

2. international(s = adj.all) external, outside - from or between other countries; "external commerce"; "international trade"; "developing nations need outside help"
Derived form noun internationality₁

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international, a. [Pref. inter- + national: cf. F. international.].

1. Between or among nations; pertaining to the intercourse of nations; participated in by two or more nations; common to, or affecting, two or more nations. [1913 Webster]

2. Of or concerning the association called the International. [1913 Webster]

3. Independent of national boundaries; common to all people; as, the atmosphere is an international resource; the international community of scholars. [PJC]

International code (Naut.), a common system of signaling adopted by nearly all maritime nations, whereby communication may be had between vessels at sea. -- International copyright. See under Copyright. -- International law, the rules regulating the mutual intercourse of nations. International law is mainly the product of the conditions from time to time of international intercourse, being drawn from diplomatic discussion, textbooks, proof of usage, and from recitals in treaties. It is called public when treating of the relations of sovereign powers, and private when of the relations of persons of different nationalities. International law is now, by the better opinion, part of the common law of the land. Cf. Conflict of laws, under Conflict. Wharton.

international, n. [Cf. F. internationale.].

1. The International; an abbreviated from of the title of the International Workingmen's Association, the name of an association, formed in London in 1864, which has for object the promotion of the interests of the industrial classes of all nations. [1913 Webster]

2. A member of the International Association. [1913 Webster]

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international, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 existing, involving, or carried on between two or more nations.
2 agreed on or used by all or many nations (international date-line; international driving licence).
--n.
1 a a contest, esp. in sport, between teams representing different countries. b a member of such a team.
2 a (International) any of four associations founded (1864-1936) to promote socialist or communist action. b a member of any of these.

Idiom:
international law a body of rules established by custom or treaty and agreed as binding by nations in their relations with one another. international system of units a system of physical units based on the metre, kilogram, second, ampere, kelvin, candela, and mole, with prefixes to indicate multiplication or division by a power of ten. international unit a standard quantity of a vitamin etc.

Derivative:
internationality n. internationally adv.

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Correlation

N correlation, reciprocalness, reciprocity, reciprocation, mutuality, correlation, interdependence, interrelation, connection, link, association, interchange, exchange, barter, reciprocator, reprocitist, reciprocal, mutual, commutual, correlative, reciprocative, interrelated, closely related, alternate, interchangeable, interdependent, international, complemental, complementary, mutually, mutatis mutandis, vice versa, each other, one another, by turns, reciprocally, happy in our mutual help.

Sociality

N sociality, sociability, sociableness, social intercourse, consociation, intercourse, intercommunity, consortship, companionship, comradeship, clubbism, esprit de corps, conviviality, good fellowship, good company, joviality, jollity, savoir vivre, festivity, festive board, merrymaking, loving cup, hospitality, heartiness, cheer, welcome, welcomeness, greeting, hearty welcome, hearty reception, warm reception, urbanity, familiarity, good fellow, jolly fellow, bon enfant, bawcock, social circle, family circle, circle of acquaintance, coterie, society, company, social gathering, social reunion, assembly, barbecue, bee, corn-husking, corn-shucking, house raising, barn raising, husking, husking-bee, infare, party, entertainment, reception, levee, at, home, conversazione, soiree, matin_ee, evening party, morning party, afternoon party, bridge party, garden party, surprise party, kettle, kettle drum, partie carr_ee, dish of tea, ridotto, rout, housewarming, ball, festival, smoker, smoker-party, sociable, stag party, hen party, tamasha, tea-party, tea-fight, (amusement), the feast of reason and the flow of soul, birthday party, Christmas party, New Year's Eve party, Thanksgiving Day Dinner, bonenkai, wedding reception, visiting, round of visits, call, morning call, interview, assignation, tryst, trysting place, appointment, club, sociable, companionable, clubbable, conversable, cosy, cosey, chatty, conversational, homiletical, convivial, festive, festal, jovial, jolly, hospitable, welcome, welcome as the roses in May, f=eted, entertained, free and easy, hall fellow well met, familiar, on visiting terms, acquainted, social, neighborly, international, gregarious, en famille, in the family circle, sans fa, arm in arm, a crowd is not company, be bright and jovial among your guests tonight, his worth is warrant for his welcome, let's be red with mirth, welcome the coming speed the parting guest.

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Pos: Noun

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children, n.

pl. of Child. [1913 Webster]

[OXFORD DICTIONARY]

children, pl. of CHILD.

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Pos: Noun

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Noun emergency has 3 senses

1. emergency(n = noun.event) exigency, pinch - a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action; "he never knew what to do in an emergency"
is a kind of crisis
Derived form adjective emergent₁

2. emergency(n = noun.state) - a state in which martial law applies; "the governor declared a state of emergency"
is a kind of temporary state

3. emergency(n = noun.artifact) emergency brake, hand brake, parking brake - a brake operated by hand; usually operates by mechanical linkage;
is a kind of brake
is a part of automotive vehicle, motor vehicle

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emergency, n. [See Emergence.].

1. Sudden or unexpected appearance; an unforeseen occurrence; a sudden occasion. [1913 Webster]
"Most our rarities have been found out by casual emergency." [1913 Webster]

2. An unforeseen occurrence or combination of circumstances which calls for immediate action or remedy; pressing necessity; exigency. [1913 Webster]
"To whom she might her doubts propose,
On all emergencies that rose." [1913 Webster]
"A safe counselor in most difficult emergencies."

Syn. -- Crisis; conjuncture; exigency; pinch; strait; necessity.

[OXFORD DICTIONARY]

emergency, n. (pl. -ies)
1 a sudden state of danger, conflict, etc., requiring immediate action.
2 a a medical condition requiring immediate treatment. b a patient with such a condition.
3 (attrib.) characterized by or for use in an emergency.
4 Austral. Sport a reserve player.

Idiom:
state of emergency a condition of danger or disaster affecting a country, esp. with normal constitutional procedures suspended.

Etymology:
med.L emergentia (as EMERGE)

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Circumstance

N circumstance, situation, phase, position, posture, attitude, place, point, terms, regime, footing, standing, status, occasion, juncture, conjunctive, contingency, predicament, emergence, emergency, exigency, crisis, pinch, pass, push, occurrence, turning point, bearings, how the land lies, surroundings, context, environment, location, contingency, dependence (uncertainty), causation, attribution, circumstantial, given, conditional, provisional, critical, modal, contingent, incidental, adventitious, limitative, in the circumstances, under the circumstances, the circumstances, conditions, thus, in such wise, accordingly, that being the case, such being the case, in view of the circumstances, that being so, sith, since, seeing that, as matters stand, as things go, as times go, conditionally, provided, if, in case, if so, if so be, if it be so, depending on circumstances, in certain circumstances, under certain conditions, if it so happen, if it so turn out, in the event of, in such a contingency, in such a case, in such an event, provisionally, unless, without, according to circumstances, according to the occasion, as it may happen, as it may turn out, as it may be, as the case may be, as the wind blows, pro re nata, yet are my sins not those of circumstance.

Difficulty

N difficulty, hardness, impracticability, tough work, hard work, uphill work, hard task, Herculean task, Augean task, task of Sisyphus, Sisyphean labor, tough job, teaser, rasper, dead lift, dilemma, embarrassment, deadlock, perplexity, intricacy, entanglement, complexity, cross fire, awkwardness, delicacy, ticklish card to play, knot, Gordian knot, dignus vindice nodus, net, meshes, maze, coil, crooked path, involvement, nice point, delicate point, subtle point, knotty point, vexed question, vexata quaestio, poser, puzzle, paradox, hard nut to crack, nut to crack, bone to pick, crux, pons asinorum, where the shoe pinches, nonplus, quandary, strait, pass, pinch, pretty pass, stress, brunt, critical situation, crisis, trial, rub, emergency, exigency, scramble, scrape, hobble, slough, quagmire, hot water, hornet's nest, sea of troubles, peck of troubles, pretty kettle of fish, pickle, stew, imbroglio, mess, ado, false position, set fast, stand, standstill, deadlock, dead set, fix, horns of a dilemma, cul de sac, hitch, stumbling block, crab, curmudgeon, difficult, not easy, hard, tough, troublesome, toilsome, irksome, operose, laborious, onerous, arduous, Herculean, formidable, sooner said than done, more easily said than done, easier said than done, difficult to deal with, hard to deal with, ill-conditioned, crabbed, crabby, not to be handled with kid gloves, not made with rose water, awkward, unwieldy, unmanageable, intractable, stubborn, perverse, refractory, plaguy, trying, thorny, rugged, knotted, knotty, invious, pathless, trackless, labyrinthine, intricate, complicated, impracticable, not feasible, desperate, embarrassing, perplexing, delicate, ticklish, critical, beset with difficulties, full of difficulties, surrounded by difficulties, entangled by difficulties, encompassed with difficulties, under a difficulty, in a box, in difficulty, in hot water, in the suds, in a cleft stick, in a fix, in the wrong box, in a scrape, in deep water, in a fine pickle, in extremis, between two stools, between Scylla and Charybdis, surrounded by shoals, surrounded by breakers, surrounded by quicksands, at cross purposes, not out of the wood, reduced to straits, hard pressed, sorely pressed, run hard, pinched, put to it, straitened, hard up, hard put to it, hard set, put to one's shifts, puzzled, at a loss, at the end of one's tether, at the end of one's rope, at one's wit's end, at a nonplus, at a standstill, graveled, nonplused, nonplussed, stranded, aground, stuck fast, set fast, up a tree, at bay, aux abois, driven into a corner, driven from pillar to post, driven to extremity, driven to one's wit's end, driven to the wall, au bout de son Latin, out of one's depth, thrown out, accomplished with difficulty, hard-fought, hard-earned, with difficulty, with much ado, barely, hardly, uphill, against the stream, against the grain, d rebours, invita Minerva, in the teeth of, at a pinch, upon a pinch, at long odds, against long odds, ay there's the rub, hic labor hoc opus, things are come to a pretty pass, ab inconvenienti, ad astra per aspera, acun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire.

Eventuality

N eventuality, event, occurrence, incident, affair, matter, thing, episode, happening, proceeding, contingency, juncture, experience, fact, matter of fact, naked fact, bare facts, just the facts, phenomenon, advent, business, concern, transaction, dealing, proceeding, circumstance, particular, casualty, accident, adventure, passage, crisis, pass, emergency, contingency, consequence, opportunity (occasion), the world, life, things, doings, affairs in general, things in general, affairs in general, the times, state of affairs, order of the day, course of things, tide of things, stream of things, current of things, run of things, march of things, course of events, ups and downs of life, vicissitudes of life, chapter of accidents, situation, happening, going on, doing, current, in the wind, in the air, afloat, on foot, afoot, on the tapis, at issue, in question, incidental, eventful, stirring, bustling, full of incident, memorable, momentous, signal, eventually, in the event of, in case, just in case, in the course of things, as things, times go, as the world goes, wags, as the tree falls, cat jumps, as it may turn out, happen, that's the way the ball bounces, that's the way the cookie crumbles, you never know what may turn up, you never know what the future will bring, the plot thickens, breasts the blows of circumstance, so runs round of life from hour to hour, sprinkled along the waste of years.

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Pos: Noun, Verb (transitive)

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Noun fund has 3 senses

1. fund(n = noun.possession) monetary fund - a reserve of money set aside for some purpose;
is a kind of money
has particulars: mutual fund, revolving fund, sinking fund, nest egg, savings, pension fund, superannuation fund, war chest, slush fund, trust fund, bank deposit, deposit, budget, petty cash
Derived forms verb fund₆, verb fund₂

2. fund(n = noun.possession) stock, store - a supply of something available for future use; "he brought back a large store of Cuban cigars"
is a kind of accumulation
has particulars: base, infrastructure, cache, hoard, stash, provision, government issue, issue, military issue, seed stock

3. fund(n = noun.group) investment company, investment firm, investment trust - a financial institution that sells shares to individuals and invests in securities issued by other companies;
is a kind of nondepository financial institution
has particulars: hedge fund, hedgefund, mutual fund, mutual fund company, open-end fund, open-end investment company, closed-end fund, closed-end investment company, face-amount certificate company, real estate investment trust, reit, unit investment trust, unit trust, fixed investment trust, nondiscretionary trust
Derived forms verb fund₄, verb fund₃

Verb fund has 6 senses

1. fund(v = verb.possession) - convert (short-term floating debt) into long-term debt that bears fixed interest and is represented by bonds;
is one way to finance
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

2. fund(v = verb.possession) - place or store up in a fund for accumulation;
is one way to accumulate, amass, collect, compile, hoard, pile up, roll up
Derived form noun fund₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

3. fund(v = verb.possession) - provide a fund for the redemption of principal or payment of interest;
is one way to furnish, provide, render, supply
Derived form noun fund₃
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

4. fund(v = verb.possession) - invest money in government securities;
is one way to commit, invest, place, put
Derived form noun fund₃
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

5. fund(v = verb.possession) - accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability; "fund a medical care plan"
is one way to accumulate, amass, collect, compile, hoard, pile up, roll up
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something

6. fund(v = verb.possession) - furnish money for; "The government funds basic research in many areas"
is one way to support
Derived forms noun fund₁, noun funding₂, noun funding₁
Sample sentences: They fund him to write the letter

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fund, n. [OF. font, fond, nom. fonz, bottom, ground, F. fond bottom, foundation, fonds fund, fr. L. fundus bottom, ground, foundation, piece of land. See Found to establish.].

1. An aggregation or deposit of resources from which supplies are or may be drawn for carrying on any work, or for maintaining existence. [1913 Webster]

2. A stock or capital; a sum of money appropriated as the foundation of some commercial or other operation undertaken with a view to profit; that reserve by means of which expenses and credit are supported; as, the fund of a bank, commercial house, manufacturing corporation, etc. [1913 Webster]

3. The stock of a national debt; public securities; evidences (stocks or bonds) of money lent to government, for which interest is paid at prescribed intervals; -- called also public funds. [1913 Webster]

4. An invested sum, whose income is devoted to a specific object; as, the fund of an ecclesiastical society; a fund for the maintenance of lectures or poor students; also, money systematically collected to meet the expenses of some permanent object. [1913 Webster]

5. A store laid up, from which one may draw at pleasure; a supply; a full provision of resources; as, a fund of wisdom or good sense. [1913 Webster]
"An inexhaustible fund of stories." [1913 Webster]

Sinking fund, the aggregate of sums of money set apart and invested, usually at fixed intervals, for the extinguishment of the debt of a government, or of a corporation, by the accumulation of interest.

fund, v. t.

1. To provide and appropriate a fund or permanent revenue for the payment of the interest of; to make permanent provision of resources (as by a pledge of revenue from customs) for discharging the interest of or principal of; as, to fund government notes. [1913 Webster]

2. To place in a fund, as money. [1913 Webster]

3. To put into the form of bonds or stocks bearing regular interest; as, to fund the floating debt. [1913 Webster]

[OXFORD DICTIONARY]

fund, n. & v.
--n.
1 a permanent stock of something ready to be drawn upon (a fund of knowledge; a fund of tenderness).
2 a stock of money, esp. one set apart for a purpose.
3 (in pl.) money resources.
4 (in pl.; prec. by the) Brit. the stock of the National Debt (as a mode of investment).
--v.tr.
1 provide with money.
2 convert (a floating debt) into a more or less permanent debt at fixed interest.
3 put into a fund.

Idiom:
fund-raiser a person who seeks financial support for a cause, enterprise, etc. fund-raising the seeking of financial support. in funds colloq. having money to spend.

Etymology:
L fundus bottom, piece of land

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Store

N store, stock, fund, mine, vein, lode, quarry, spring, fount, fountain, well, wellspring, milch cow, stock in trade, supply, heap, treasure, reserve, corps de reserve, reserved fund, nest egg, savings, bonne bouche, crop, harvest, mow, vintage, store, accumulation, hoard, rick, stack, lumber, relay, storehouse, storeroom, storecloset, depository, depot, cache, repository, reservatory, repertory, repertorium, promptuary, warehouse, entrepot, magazine, buttery, larder, spence, garner, granary, cannery, safe-deposit vault, stillroom, thesaurus, bank, armory, arsenal, dock, gallery, museum, conservatory, menagery, menagerie, reservoir, cistern, aljibar, tank, pond, mill pond, gasometer, budget, quiver, bandolier, portfolio, coffer, conservation, storing, storage, keep, file (papers), lay in, preserve, Adj, stored, in store, in reserve, in ordinary, spare, supernumerary, adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit.

VB store, put by, lay by, set by, stow away, set apart, lay apart, store treasure, hoard treasure, lay up, heap up, put up, garner up, save up, bank, cache, accumulate, amass, hoard, fund, garner, save, reserve, keep back, hold back, husband, husband one's resources, deposit, stow, stack, load, harvest, heap, collect, lay in store Adj, keep, file (papers), lay in, preserve.