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say it: YOO-nuh-sef
unicef is a noun meaning "an agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries". It is pronounced /ˈjunəˌsɛf/ — YOO-nuh-sef. It carries one recorded sense.
an agency of the United Nations responsible for programs to aid education and the health of children and mothers in developing countries
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for unicef come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.