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 Dictionary entry overview: What does WHO mean? 

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

1. a United Nations agency to coordinate international health activities and to help governments improve health services

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WHO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A United Nations agency to coordinate international health activities and to help governments improve health services

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

W.H.O.; WHO; World Health Organization

Hypernyms ("WHO" is a kind of...):

UN agency; United Nations agency (an agency of the United Nations)

 Context examples 

She was now seen by many young men who had not been near her before.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

But here were books, and here were men who had penetrated deeper and knew more.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I told him I did not know his mate Bill, and this was for a person who stayed in our house whom we called the captain.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

A doctor who specializes in treating cancer.

(Medical oncologist, NCI Thesaurus)

Your personal health information: who has access to your records?

(Medical Ethics, NIH)

Almost everyone who has surgery on the abdomen gets adhesions.

(Adhesions, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

No one had ever come within the Kellynch circle, who could bear a comparison with Frederick Wentworth, as he stood in her memory.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

It is used in patients who have already been treated with the anticancer drug called trastuzumab and a type of drug called a taxane.

(Ado-trastuzumab emtansine, NCI Dictionary)

An assessment result of the final state in a person who experienced an adverse event, which takes place after the adverse event occurs.

(Adverse Event Outcome Result, NCI Thesaurus)

It was Garcia, then, who had an enterprise, and apparently a criminal enterprise, in hand that night in the course of which he met his death.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)