NUFFIELD

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• NUFFIELD (noun)
  The noun NUFFIELD has 1 sense:

1. British industrialist who manufactured automobiles and created a philanthropic foundation (1877-1963)

  Familiarity information: NUFFIELD used as a noun is very rare.

• NUFFIELD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

British industrialist who manufactured automobiles and created a philanthropic foundation (1877-1963)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

First Viscount Nuffield; Nuffield; William Richard Morris

Instance hypernyms:

industrialist (someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise)

altruist; philanthropist (someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being)

 Context examples 

“We propose a flexitarian diet,” says lead researcher Marco Springmann, from the Nuffield Department of Population Health at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

(Model shows pathway to feeding the world, SciDev.Net)