EAZ

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EAZ

1. (international standards) Indeterminately reserved ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for Zanzibar.

   Synonym: TZA (for general use, as part of Tanzania)

Usage notes

This is an indeterminately reserved code, included as part of ISO 3166-1 due to its use in designating road vehicles under the 1949 Geneva Convention on Road Traffic, and is not endorsed for general use by the ISO.

English

Noun

EAZ (plural EAZs)

1. (UK, education) Initialism of Education Action Zone, any of various areas of England considered for special assistance in increasing the quality or availability of educational opportunities, instituted by New Labour.
   • 2001, David Woods, Martyn Cribb, Effective LEAs and school improvement:

     Excellence in Cities offers a further development of this approach, whereby secondary schools operate with small clusters of primaries as mini-EAZs.

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