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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation International Committee of the Red Cross

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  • initialism International Committee of the Red Cross

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Examples

  • Icrc.org. you'll find updates on their latest projects and can make donations online by clicking "Help the ICRC," that's in the upper right-hand corner.

    CNN Transcript Mar 7, 2004 2004

  • We are led to believe that in their first week down there they probably will not meet with the 14, but those 14 will be having their audience with the what they call the ICRC next week.

    CNN Transcript Sep 25, 2006 2006

  • But even when the ICRC is admitted by governments and guerrilla groups, its role is not always widely understood or appreciated.

    Red Cross at the Crossroads 1987

  • “The ICRC is the guardian of the Geneva Conventions, and when it uses those words, they have the force of law.”

    Red Cross: America practiced torture 2009

  • Unrestricted: ICRC is allowed full access to talk to the detainee.

    Inside Guantánamo 2008

  • Restricted: ICRC is allowed to ask the detainee about health and welfare only.

    Inside Guantánamo 2008

  • Unrestricted: ICRC is allowed full access to talk to the detainee.

    Inside Guantánamo 2008

  • Restricted: ICRC is allowed to ask the detainee about health and welfare only.

    Inside Guantánamo 2008

  • People who aren't doing fine at all and don't have much prospect of doing fine anytime soon are counting on the ICRC, and the ICRC is counting on you. posted by Shaun at

    You can fool some of the people... 2005

  • People who aren't doing fine at all and don't have much prospect of doing fine anytime soon are counting on the ICRC, and the ICRC is counting on you. posted by Shaun at

    Real reality... 2005

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