O.S.F.

American  

abbreviation

1. Order of St. Francis (Franciscan).

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OSF British  

abbreviation

1. Order of Saint Francis

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Example Sentences

Last April, O.S.F. decided to move the office, a regional hub for its grant-making activities for the past twenty years, to Berlin.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 7, 2019

Most plutocrats measure progress in numbers, but the kind of work that Soros, through the O.S.F., has done generally defies quantification.

From New York Times • Jul. 17, 2018

In the early 1990s, the O.S.F. gave $5 million to a program that offered free breakfasts to Hungarian schoolchildren.

From New York Times • Jul. 17, 2018

Soros originally planned to close the O.S.F. in 2010.

From New York Times • Jul. 17, 2018

The reference in our text is to the appointment of new bishops for these sees—for Cebú, Pedro Matías, O.S.F.; and for Nueva Cáceres, Pedro de Arce, O.S.A.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 17 of 55 1609-1616 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander