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

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

From New York Times • Jul. 17, 2018

In mid-May, the O.S.F. announced that it was closing its Budapest office, which was responsible for almost half its international grants.

From New York Times • Jul. 17, 2018

At the time, nearly everyone assumed that Clinton would win the election, but people at O.S.F. were still intrigued by the rise of Trump.

From New York Times • Aug. 16, 2017

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