Naafi

American  

[naf-ee] / ˈnæf i /

Or NAAFI

noun

British.

1. Navy, Army, and Air Force Institutes: an organization that provides social facilities, stores, etc., to British military personnel.

2. a canteen run by this organization.

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NAAFI British  

/ ˈnæfɪ /

acronym

1. Navy, Army, and Air Force Institutes: an organization providing canteens, shops, etc, for British military personnel at home or overseas

2. a canteen, shop, etc, run by this organization

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Example Sentences

Katrice had been with her mother Sharon, from Gosport, at a Naafi supermarket in Paderborn in November 1981 when she disappeared.

From BBC • May 4, 2022

Although the Naafi supermarket has long since gone, much of the surrounding area remains eerily familiar to him.

From BBC • Nov. 28, 2021

The area around the Naafi complex in Schloss Neuhaus that day was "pandemonium" and a "mass of bodies" of soldiers, their families and civilians attending a college open day, Mr Lee explains.

From BBC • Nov. 28, 2021

Superfície, a Brazilian-Irish producer now based in Berlin, showed them kuduro, baile funk and batucada, while strains of percussive music championed by labels such as Príncipe and Naafi, broadened their horizons further.

From The Guardian • Jan. 22, 2020

For five years she worked for the Naafi, the Ministry of Defence's catering organisation, with responsibility to feed 50,000 hungry troops across five garrisons in Germany.

From The Guardian • May 25, 2012