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noun
A kind of mutual aid organization in Hong Kong, originally set up under British colonial rule, and mainly intended to provide free or cheap services to Chinese refugees.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Borrowed from Cantonese 街坊 (gaai1 fong1) in the mid-1800s.
