"food bank" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: food banks [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} food bank (plural food banks)
  1. A charitable non-profit organization that distributes mostly donated food to a wide variety of agencies to those who have difficulty purchasing enough to avoid hunger. Translations (a non-profit, charitable organization that distributes food to feed the hungry): alusenji [masculine] (Cornish), fødevarebank [common-gender] (Danish), voedselbank [feminine, masculine] (Dutch), ruokapankki (Finnish), banque alimentaire [feminine] (French), საკვების ბანკი (saḳvebis banḳi) (Georgian), სურსათის ბანკი (sursatis banḳi) (Georgian), Tafel [feminine] (German), בנק מזון (bank mazón) [masculine] (Hebrew), banc bia [masculine] (Irish), banco alimentare [masculine] (Italian), ធនាគារអាហារ (thĕəʼniəkiə ʼaahaa) (Khmer), bank makanan (Malay), matsentral [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), banco alimentar [masculine] (Portuguese), banco de alimentos [masculine] (Portuguese), пищево́й банк (piščevój bank) [masculine] (Russian), banco de alimentos [masculine] (Spanish), matbank [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-food_bank-en-noun-zMCPW-U9 Disambiguation of 'a non-profit, charitable organization that distributes food to feed the hungry': 81 19
  2. A stock of food stored or set aside for use in the event of an emergency or shortage. Synonyms: foodbank Derived forms: food banking Related terms: food closet, food pantry
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Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-11-21 using wiktextract (94ba7e1 and 5dea2a6). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.