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NIH

NIH is the initialism of National Institutes of Health.

NIH is the initialism of not invented here.

Meaning of not invented here

Adjective

not invented here (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) Invented outside one's own organization (referring to the knee-jerk dismissal of products, technologies, etc. that come from third parties).
    Synonyms:
    NIH

Questions about NIH

What is NIH the initialism of?
NIH is the initialism of National Institutes of Health.

Words near NIH in the dictionary

  1. nigun
  2. nigunim
  3. niguns
  4. Nigérien
  5. Nigériens
  6. NIH
  7. Nihal
  8. Nihali
  9. Nihang
  10. Nihangs
  11. nihari

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Adapted from Wiktionary: NIH (page history and authors); not invented here (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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