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ADF

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Translingual

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Etymology 1

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ADF

  1. (international standards, aviation) IATA airport code for Adıyaman Airport, which serves Adıyaman, Turkey.

Etymology 2

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ADF

  1. (international standards, historical) Unofficial non-ISO 4217 currency code for the former Andorran franc; a currency used from 1990 to 2003.

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Noun

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ADF (plural ADFs)

  1. (aviation) Initialism of automatic direction finder.
  2. Initialism of automatic document feeder.
  3. (software) Initialism of Application Development Framework (of Oracle)

Proper noun

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ADF

  1. (US) Initialism of African Development Foundation.
    • 2017 May 23, Gregory Krieg and Will Mullery, “Trump’s budget by the numbers: What gets cut and why”, in CNN[1]:
      “The Budget proposes to eliminate the African Development Foundation (ADF) and the Inter-American Foundation (IAF) in order to streamline functions across Government. The funding included in the Budget reflects close-out costs for ADF and IAF, particularly to pay severance costs.
  2. Initialism of Alliance Defending Freedom.
    • 2018 August 8, Laura Jarrett, “Sessions: Group that backed baker who turned away gay couple not a ‘hate group’”, in CNN[2]:
      “When I spoke to ADF last year, I learned that the Southern Poverty Law Center had classified ADF as a ‘hate group,’ ” Sessions said. “They have used this designation as a weapon and they have wielded it against conservative organizations that refuse to accept their orthodoxy.”

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