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GCF

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

  1. Initialism of greatest common factor.
  2. Initialism of Green Climate Fund.
  3. Initialism of gender-critical feminist.
  4. Initialism of gender-critical feminism.

Examples

“Now imagine⟳ that, as is the case with many British GCF philosophers, the instructor believes that trans women in women’s prisons pose an unacceptable threat to the safety of inmates in those prisons. […] The pay-off, though, of defending GCFs in cases like⟳ the above is that by the very same principle we defend⟳ other controversial scholarship, including emerging scholarly areas like⟳ transgender studies or critical race⟳ studies.”
“A GCF might claim⟳ that transwomen should not be included in the category ‘women’.”
“GCFs talk⟳ of my body and flesh and find⟳ it to be mutilated.”
“In contrast to trans-exclusionary radical feminism (TERF) and Gender Critical Feminism (GCF), which theorize women’s identities and spaces to the exclusion of transgender women […]”
“As the world's largest multilateral climate fund, the GCF is tasked with driving green investments to developing countries. […] The GCF was one of the earliest victims of President Donald Trump's sweeping attack on climate action following his re-election.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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