NHB

See also: nhb

Translingual

Symbol

NHB

1. (international standards, obsolete) Former ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for New Hebrides from 1974 to 1980.

   Synonyms: NH (alpha-2 1974–1980), VUT (1980–present, as Vanuatu)

Usage notes

The code was deprecated in favour of VUT upon the country gaining independence as Vanuatu.

English

Proper noun

NHB

1. Initialism of New Headquarters Building: the new location of the headquarters of the CIA.

   Coordinate term: OHB

   • 2019 September 17, Edward Snowden, Permanent Record, New York, N.Y.: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, page 125:

     Though the CIA had dotted the country with relay servers, many of the agency's most important servers were situated on-site. Half of them were in the NHB, where my team was located; the other half were in the nearby OHB.