Oxfam

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  1. A United Kingdom-based charity focused on alleviating global poverty and operating a chain of charity shops.
    — [E]xquisitely torn jeans adorned the 'Hard Times' cover of The Face, while the long macs and second-hand suits of the 'Oxfam brigade', with their doomy Joy Division rock and George Orwell haircuts, made a suitable fanfare for the advent of the dreaded 1984. In one sense Oxfam chic was a lament for the passing of the old working-class certainties […]

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Syllabic abbreviation of Oxford Committee for Famine Relief: originally the telegraphic address of the organisation.
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