CIF

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A form of cost — To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price.

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Meanings

nounCIF (uncountable)
  1. abbreviationinitialismuncountableInitialism of cost, insurance and freight.
proper noun
  1. abbreviationinitialismhobbiesInitialism of California Interscholastic Federation.

    It was rekindled this summer when going through the all-time football scores for St. Mary’s of Stockton and Oakdale (two of the top programs in the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section) and I discovered that both of them can still count their worst losses as being to Stockton High at 78-0 and 90-0, respectively.

    2015 October 1, Mark Tennis, “State’s Greatest Closed High Schools”, in Cal-Hi Sports

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
cost, insurance and freight

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

CIF. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/CIF

MLA

“CIF.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/CIF. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “CIF,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/CIF.

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