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    PLO

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A political movement uniting Palestinian Arabs in an effort to create an independent state of Palestine; when formed in 1964 it was a terrorist organization dominated by Yasser Arafat's al-Fatah; in 1968 Arafat became chairman; received recognition by the United Nations and by Arab states in 1974 as a government in exile; has played a largely political role since the creation of the Palestine National Authorityplay

    Synonyms:

    Palestine Liberation Organization; PLO

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

    Hypernyms ("PLO" is a kind of...):

    political movement (a group of people working together to achieve a political goal)

    Meronyms (members of "PLO"):

    al-Asifa; al-Fatah; Fatah (a Palestinian political and military organization founded by Yasser Arafat in 1958 to work toward the creation of a Palestinian state; during the 1960s and 1970s trained terrorist and insurgent groups)

    Domain region:

    Palestine (a former British mandate on the east coast of the Mediterranean; divided between Jordan and Israel in 1948)

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