American Friends Service Committee: Meaning and Definition of

Amer'ican Friends' Serv'ice Commit"tee

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  1. a social-service organization founded 1917 by the Religious Society of Friends: Nobel peace prize 1947. Abbr.: AFSC, A.F.S.C.
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