Red Cross

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Red Cross

1. (with the) An international humanitarian organization that cares for the wounded, sick, and homeless.
   • 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Virago Press (2018), page 193:

     ‘De Red Cross is doinʼ all dat kin be done otherwise fuh de sick and de ʼfflicted.’

2. (with the) The symbol of this organization.
3. An unincorporated community in Kentucky.
4. A town in North Carolina.

• Red Cross on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “Red Cross”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Red Cross”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Red Cross”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• “Red Cross”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “the Red Cross” (US) / “the Red Cross” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.