Red Cross
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- proper noun
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Cruz Roja
- The Red Cross provides vital support during natural disasters, helping those in need.
- International Committee of the Red Cross
- International Federation of the Red Cross
- Red Cross and Red Crescent
Save the Children, Doctors Without Borders, World Vision, Now the Red Cross, Salvation Army.
- Save the Children, Doctors Without Borders, World Vision, Now the Red Cross, Salvation Army.
- And then once they ended up in the camps, they received packages from the Red Cross.
- Though there is evidence that this may not really be true, One thing is certain, the Red Cross culture of opacity has been breached.
- And then it got to the point where as days went by, no electricity, there was no FEMA, there was no Red Cross in that area when we were there.
- I was lucky enough to have been chosen as one of the four Korean students by the American Red Cross Society.
- He was the former president of, he was up there in the Red Cross and then he was the president and CEO of the American Lung Association.
- I want to thank my good friend Bob Davis of the International Red Cross in Nairobi for his assistance with developing the same answer.
- And then in fact, we've even been talking with the Red Cross about torture and the need to have a new Geneva Convention on torture.
Examples
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I work for the Red Cross and I'm a physiotherapist.
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Did the Red Cross treat you good?
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And I said he told me to go to the Red Cross, they will help me.
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How did it go with the Red Cross?
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- The Red Cross is standing by.
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We have emergency supplies from the Red Cross.
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I was lucky enough to have been chosen as one of the four Korean students by the American Red Cross Society.
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He volunteers for the Red Cross.
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I went with a Red Cross health team to a small barrio on Guimaras Island.
Fiction book (1999) -
A young nurse from Auckland named Hannah Simpson was there, working for the Red Cross.
Surface Forms
Morphology
This is a proper name for a specific international humanitarian organization, so its institutional meaning is not directly derivable from the literal constituents 'red' (a color) and 'cross' (a symbol). Although the red cross symbol may hint at medical or aid functions and many languages use a cognate name, the organizational sense is lexicalized and requires cultural/world knowledge beyond knowing the component words.
Etymology
Red Cross comes from a simple symbol used to mark helpers in war: people reversed the Swiss flag, which had a white cross on red, to make a bold red cross on a white background as a neutral sign for those giving medical care. So a red cross came to mean 'medical help', and the organization took that name.