"Oxfam" meaning in English

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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1992, Juliet Ash, Elizabeth Wilson, Chic Thrills: A Fashion Reader, page 42:",
          "text": "[E]xquisitely torn jeans adorned the 'Hard Times' cover of The Face, while the long macs and second-hand suits of the 'Oxfam brigade', with their doomy Joy Division rock and George Orwell haircuts, made a suitable fanfare for the advent of the dreaded 1984. In one sense Oxfam chic was a lament for the passing of the old working-class certainties […]",
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        {
          "ref": "2012, Alana Muir, An American Guide to Britishness, page 34:",
          "text": "In the town center of the village I live in, there is an Oxfam shop, a Salvation Army shop, a Heart Disease UK shop, and a Cancer Research shop. They sell the usual thrift store stuff of used clothes and books.",
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        }
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        "A United Kingdom-based charity focused on alleviating global poverty and operating a chain of charity shops."
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          "United Kingdom",
          "United Kingdom"
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          "charity",
          "charity"
        ],
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          "global",
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        [
          "poverty",
          "poverty"
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        [
          "charity shop",
          "charity shop"
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      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "charity",
          "word": "樂施會"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "Lèshīhuì",
          "sense": "charity",
          "word": "乐施会"
        },
        {
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "okseupam",
          "sense": "charity",
          "word": "옥스팜"
        }
      ],
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        "Oxfam",
        "Oxford Committee for Famine Relief",
        "telegraphic address"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɒksfæm/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Oxfam"
}

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          "ref": "1992, Juliet Ash, Elizabeth Wilson, Chic Thrills: A Fashion Reader, page 42:",
          "text": "[E]xquisitely torn jeans adorned the 'Hard Times' cover of The Face, while the long macs and second-hand suits of the 'Oxfam brigade', with their doomy Joy Division rock and George Orwell haircuts, made a suitable fanfare for the advent of the dreaded 1984. In one sense Oxfam chic was a lament for the passing of the old working-class certainties […]",
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        },
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          "ref": "2012, Alana Muir, An American Guide to Britishness, page 34:",
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        }
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      ],
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          "United Kingdom"
        ],
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          "charity",
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        ],
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        ],
        [
          "poverty",
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        ],
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        ]
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        "Oxford Committee for Famine Relief",
        "telegraphic address"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "ipa": "/ˈɒksfæm/"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "charity",
      "word": "樂施會"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "Lèshīhuì",
      "sense": "charity",
      "word": "乐施会"
    },
    {
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      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "okseupam",
      "sense": "charity",
      "word": "옥스팜"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Oxfam"
}