"VAD" meaning in All languages combined

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          "extra": "a women′s first-aid organisation active during World War I and World War II, or a member of this detachment; also V.A.D.",
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          "ref": "1925, Ford Madox Ford, No More Parades (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 328",
          "text": "‘You've not been caught in bed with a V.A.D.?’ Tietjens asked.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society, published 2008, page 32",
          "text": "‘A nurse is like a doctor. It takes a long time to be. A VAD is a short cut.’",
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        {
          "ref": "1998, David Ellis, D. H. Lawrence: Dying Game 1922-1930: The Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence, page 29",
          "text": "If Mollie Skinner was ever technically a member of a Voluntary Aid Detachment in India she would have been an unusually experienced and well-qualified one. VADs were more frequently lady amateurs[…].",
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        {
          "ref": "2006, Desmond Keenan, Post-Famine Ireland: Social Structure: Ireland as it Really Was, page 176",
          "text": "There was also the Dublin University VAD, or Voluntary Aid Detachment branch of Dublin University Women graduates and undergraduates.",
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          "text": "2008, Celia M. Kingsbury, Chapter 2: Food Will Win the War, Kathleen LeBesco, Peter Naccarato (editors), Edible Ideologies: Representing Food and Meaning, State University of New York Press, 46,\nSmith, pseudonym for freelance writer Evadne Price, obtained the war journal of a V.A.D. by the name of Winifred Young, who had turned over the diary with the stipulation that Price remain faithful to the tone."
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        "(historical) Initialism of Voluntary Aid Detachment: a women′s first-aid organisation active during World War I and World War II, or a member of this detachment; also V.A.D."
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        {
          "word": "ventricular assist device"
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        "Initialism of ventricular assist device."
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        "(medicine) Initialism of ventricular assist device."
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          "ref": "1925, Ford Madox Ford, No More Parades (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 328",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society, published 2008, page 32",
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          "ref": "1998, David Ellis, D. H. Lawrence: Dying Game 1922-1930: The Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence, page 29",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Desmond Keenan, Post-Famine Ireland: Social Structure: Ireland as it Really Was, page 176",
          "text": "There was also the Dublin University VAD, or Voluntary Aid Detachment branch of Dublin University Women graduates and undergraduates.",
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          "text": "2008, Celia M. Kingsbury, Chapter 2: Food Will Win the War, Kathleen LeBesco, Peter Naccarato (editors), Edible Ideologies: Representing Food and Meaning, State University of New York Press, 46,\nSmith, pseudonym for freelance writer Evadne Price, obtained the war journal of a V.A.D. by the name of Winifred Young, who had turned over the diary with the stipulation that Price remain faithful to the tone."
        }
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