Navy, Army, and Air Force Institutes: an organization that provides social facilities, stores, etc., to British military personnel.
a canteen run by this organization.
Navy, Army, and Air Force Institutes: an organization providing canteens, shops, etc, for British military personnel at home or overseas
a canteen, shop, etc, run by this organization
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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
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
Although the Naafi supermarket has long since gone, much of the surrounding area remains eerily familiar to him.
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
Engaged at 17 to Betty – they married six years later – Ball spent his national service as a craftsman in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, and played in a trio in the Naafi.
From The Guardian • Mar. 7, 2013
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