MAFFn.
/maf/, U.S. /mæf/ British.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food, a former department of the British government (originally called the Board of Agriculture and renamed in 1955, and in 2001 subsumed into the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs). Cf. Min of Ag n.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > government department or agency > [noun] > a ministry in British government
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MAFF1957
1957 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 26 288 (caption) Map drawn by A. G. Jenson, M. A. F. F., Tolworth.
1964 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 33 169 The fishing reports were supplemented by..independent trawling surveys..by the M. A. F. F. research vessels ‘Clione’ and ‘Platessa’.
1976 Economist 11 Dec. 19/1 (caption) The lone farmer... Source: MAFF.
1989 Which? Sept. 428/2 The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) tells us that some meat from BST-treated cows in the trial gets into the food supply in a processed form.
1996 Britain 1997: Official Handbk. (H.M.S.O.) 298/1 A review of the bass fishery has concluded that MAFF's conservation measures have increased stocks.
2000 Independent 12 Aug. 11/1 The maff has also ordered the slaughter of the 6,350 pigs on the three farms.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1957- to etc upon the town
- to etc where a person is coming from
- to etc where the sun don't shine
- to etc which side one's bread is buttered
- to etc winter
- to etc with a full throat
- to etc with a person's head
- to etc your heads together
- to etc — bells out of
- to etca wallop
- to etch out
- to euchre a person out of
- to euchre a person out of a thing
- to euchre out of
- to euchre out of a thing
- to euhemerize into
- to euhemerize out of
- to evaporate in or into
- to evaporate to
- to even from morn
- to even one's wit to
- to even out
- to even up
- to even up on
- to evil entreat