ASB, noun

/eɪ es ˈbiː//ɑː es ˈbɪə/
Origin:
AfrikaansShow more Afrikaans, abbreviation formed on Afrikaanse Studentebond, Afrikaanse attributive form of Afrikaans (see Afrikaans) + studente attributive and combining form of student student + bond association, league.
A union of Afrikaans university students to which Afrikaans-medium campuses were historically affiliated.
1955 T.B. Davie Educ. & Race Rel. 10Since 1933..the Afrikaans-medium universities have disaffiliated themselves [from NUSAS] and have joined a new and separate organization, Die Afrikaanse Studentebond (A.S.B.).
1969 Survey of Race Rel. (S.A.I.R.R.) 221The Afrikaanse Studentebond (ASB), which the Afrikaans-language universities support,..held its annual congress..in Pretoria.
1977 Daily Dispatch 3 Aug. 10Too often the Afrikaanse Studentebond congresses are forums for verkramptheid. But this week an ASB congress on law heard some sound common sense.
1982 Drum Nov. 51Only the ASB remain relatively unchanged by the upheavals of 1976. And the gulf between the Afrikaner student organisation and the others is massive.
1987 Weekend Argus 26 Sept. 16The Afrikaanse Studentebond (ASB), cultural and political home of the cream of Nationalist Afrikaner youth over decades, has come to the end of the road.
A union of Afrikaans university students to which Afrikaans-medium campuses were historically affiliated.
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