"NHS" meaning in English

See NHS in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} NHS
  1. (British) Initialism of National Health Service. Tags: British, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: National Health Service
  2. (US) Initialism of National Highway System. Tags: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: National Highway System
    Sense id: en-NHS-en-name-vfoPiGVS Categories (other): American English
  3. (US) Initialism of National Honors Society. Tags: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: National Honors Society
    Sense id: en-NHS-en-name-gmaj6S9A Categories (other): American English, English links with redundant alt parameters, English links with redundant wikilinks, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 23 18 39 20

Noun

Forms: NHSes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|es}} NHS (plural NHSes)
  1. (US) Initialism of National Historic Site. Tags: US, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: National Historic Site
    Sense id: en-NHS-en-noun-bp3zkNz~ Categories (other): American English

Inflected forms

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