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WORLD ORGANIZATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An international alliance involving many different countries
Synonyms:
global organization; international organisation; international organization; world organisation; world organization
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("world organization" is a kind of...):
alignment; alinement; alliance; coalition (an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "world organization"):
Arab League (an international organization of independent Arab states formed in 1945 to promote cultural and economic and military and political and social cooperation)
Common Market; EC; EEC; EU; Europe; European Community; European Economic Community; European Union (an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members)
NATO; North Atlantic Treaty Organization (an international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security)
OPCW; Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (international organization for chemical disarmament; administers the Chemical Weapons Convention)
OAS; Organization of American States (an association including most countries in the western hemisphere; created in 1948 to promote military and economic and social and cultural cooperation)
OPEC; Organization of Petroleum-Exporting Countries (an organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the production and sale of petroleum)
League of Nations (an international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations; although suggested by Woodrow Wilson, the United States never joined and it remained powerless; it was dissolved in 1946 after the United Nations was formed)
community (a group of nations having common interests)
CIS; Commonwealth of Independent States (an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991)
UN; United Nations (an organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security)
commonwealth (a world organization of autonomous states that are united in allegiance to a central power but are not subordinate to it or to one another)
World Trade Organization; WTO (an international organization based in Geneva that monitors and enforces rules governing global trade)
