NGO
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3.7
- noun
- /ˌɛn dʒiˈoʊ/
:
ONG
- The NGO focuses on improving access to education in rural communities.
- nongovernmental NGOs
- feminist NGOs
- NGO movement
We give it to the NGOs, so they help people.
- We give it to the NGOs, so they help people.
- She ends up through some miracle of the NGO going to the United States.
- And how Hillary was a part of this NGO that was funded by George Soros.
- Yeah, but India is a huge volunteer force as well and more NGOs than the United States.
- In Europe, many NGOs are scared to deal with the private sector.
- We had this small NGO, Transparency International.
- The industry got in and worked with some NGO groups.
- You know, there's an ongoing expanding crackdown against foreign NGOs operating in the country.
- It was while we're out there, Sean had set up his, his non, his NGO, you know, helping the people.
- The Saudi Yemeni border is inaccessible to most journalists and NGOs.
- We met organisations within the camps, NGOs, non government organisations who were facilitating them coming across.
- We're not working in despotic countries where the government actually doesn't want any NGOs to come in.
- It's like, it's like a regular NGO, you know, shady.
- And a lot of them are doing it through NGOs, through through startups.
Examples
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My sister volunteers at an NGO that provides meals to the homeless.
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All the independent women's movement NGOs depend to some degree on foreign funds.
Academic text (1999) -
In practice, the agency is almost always a national NGO in the developing country.
Academic text (1990) -
I used to help run an NGO.
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Some succeed in incorporating the women whom they serve into the NGO and thus the movement itself.
Academic text (1999) -
I work for an NGO that represents undocumented aliens.
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We found her here in the highlands of Guatemala working for an environmental NGO.
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For example, the law requires that NGOs first obtain permission to open branches.
Academic text (1999) -
The economic crisis of the 1980s also encouraged the growth of NGOs that sought solutions to worsening poverty.
Academic text (1999) -
Many NGOs are working together to address climate change in developing countries.
Synonyms
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3.5
An organization that does not try to make money and helps people or the community
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3.0
A group that helps people or the community without trying to make money
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3.4
An organization that does not aim to make money and helps the community
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3.7
A group that works without government to help people in need
Compounds
How Big
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3.7
∞
2.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
NGO = N + G + O
This is an initialism formed from letters; the component letters have no lexical meaning, so learners cannot derive the meaning from the parts.
Etymology
NGO is short for the phrase non- 'not', governmental 'related to government', and organization 'a group that works together'. So an NGO is a group that works 'not with' the government and often acts independently to help people, the environment, or other causes.