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单词 noraid
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Noraidn.

Brit. /ˈnɔːreɪd/, U.S. /ˈnɔˌreɪd/
Forms: 1900s– NORAID, 1900s– Noraid.
Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: English Northern Aid.
Etymology: Shortened < Northern Aid (in Irish Northern Aid Committee : compare quot. 1971).
An organization whose principal purpose is to raise funds for Northern Irish Republican causes among sympathizers abroad, esp. in the United States.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > Irish politics > [noun] > societies or associations
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1971 N.Y. Times 20 Oct. 8/1 The Times of London..quoted Toomas Enright of the United States-based Irish Northern Aid Committee as denying that the arms shipped on the Queen Elizabeth 2 came from the committee.]
1974 Irish Times 28 Sept. 8/4 A tiny minority of Irish Americans..has been misled into subscribing on a significant scale to I.R.A. front organisations like Noraid.
1984 Newsweek 27 Aug. 49/2 In New York NORAID director Michael Flannery said ‘It was a plus for us.’
1996 C. Bateman Of Wee Sweetie Mice & Men xxviii. 221 I hate Noraid anyway, but I especially hate Australians who work for Noraid.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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