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

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

And as Leonard Benardo, the vice president of the O.S.F., noted when we spoke a few months ago, that work can be unpopular in the countries where it is done.

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

Last week, O.S.F. announced eight more commissions, bringing the total to thirty-two, with five to go.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 9, 2016

Among the dead was Fray Hernando de Moraga, O.S.F., who had come to Spain some time before to ask aid for the Philippine colony and the missions there.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 19 of 55 1620-1621 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